OECD Inventory of Support Measures for Fossil Fuels: Country Notes
This new web format for Country Notes on Fossil Fuel Support provides interactive on-line access to the latest data from the OECD Inventory of Support Measures for Fossil Fuels by country – identifying and estimating the value of support arising from policies that encourage the production or consumption of fossil fuels. The web version allows users to download, share and play with the data. Interactive graphics enable data visualisation, in national currency, by beneficiary and by energy product. These Country Notes provide, for each of the 50 economies covered in the Inventory, a snapshot of energy market structure, the current state of energy prices and taxes, and recent developments and trends in fossil fuel support. Data and country notes for the EU Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries have been collected and prepared as part of the GREEN Action Task Force.
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Switzerland
As a landlocked country producing no fossil fuels, Switzerland relies heavily on hydro-electricity and nuclear power to meet the bulk of its electricity needs. Compared with its neighbouring countries, Switzerland has a relatively high share of hydro-electricity. The Government has announced that nuclear power, which accounted for nearly 30% of the total energy supply (TES) in 2018, will gradually be phased out with Swiss voters backing the proposal in a May 2017 referendum. In the wake of this electoral decision, the Mühleberg nuclear power plant went off-line, marking the first of five Swiss nuclear power reactors to be decommissioned. Due to the scarcity of fossil-fuel production and the overhaul of the country’s policy towards nuclear power, imports of types of energy products account for over a half of the country’s total primary energy supply in 2018.
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