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Assessing the future role of nuclear energy technologies in a Swiss context
The Swiss Energy Strategy has been in place in the form of the Energy Act since 2018. The strategy gives
a rough framework for the ambitious transition to a climate-neutral energy system by 2050. Since this time,
many studies have analysed the technical and economic feasibility of implementing this strategy with a
variety of methods. Still many details of the energy transition remain unanswered or at least there is a lack
of consensus in the literature. The goal of this project is specifically assess the possible future role of nuclear
energy within a Swiss context, including both existing and emerging technologies and configurations. The
objective is to perform a long-term scenario analysis to explore possible energy futures both with and without
nuclear energy, and specifically to understand the technical and economic implications.
The Swiss Energy Strategy has been in place in the form of the Energy Act since 2018. The strategy gives a rough framework for the ambitious transition to a climate-neutral energy system by 2050. Since this time, many studies have analysed the technical and economic feasibility of implementing this strate-gy with a variety of methods. Still many details of the energy transition remain unanswered or at least there is a lack of consensus in the literature. The goal of this project is specifically assess the possible future role of nuclear energy within a Swiss context, including both existing and emerging technologies and configurations. The objective is to perform a long-term scenario analysis to explore possible energy futures both with and without nuclear energy, and specifically to understand the technical and economic implications.
The Swiss Energy Strategy has been in place in the form of the Energy Act since 2018. The strategy gives a rough framework for the ambitious transition to a climate-neutral energy system by 2050. Since this time, many studies have analysed the technical and economic feasibility of implementing this strate-gy with a variety of methods. Still many details of the energy transition remain unanswered or at least there is a lack of consensus in the literature. The goal of this project is specifically assess the possible future role of nuclear energy within a Swiss context, including both existing and emerging technologies and configurations. The objective is to perform a long-term scenario analysis to explore possible energy futures both with and without nuclear energy, and specifically to understand the technical and economic implications.
The tasks of the project include but are not limited to the following:
• Reviewing the existing literature on the Swiss energy transition (relating to the Strategy), with a focus on peer-reviewed journal papers and assemble a detailed database of assumptions/results
• Techno-economic characterization of nuclear energy technologies, both existing and emerging, and possible future developments
• Energy system model development and application to explore a set of consistent and feasible scenarios for the Swiss energy systems
• Analysis, visualization and interpretation of results to derive recommendations and policy implica-tions
The tasks of the project include but are not limited to the following: • Reviewing the existing literature on the Swiss energy transition (relating to the Strategy), with a focus on peer-reviewed journal papers and assemble a detailed database of assumptions/results • Techno-economic characterization of nuclear energy technologies, both existing and emerging, and possible future developments • Energy system model development and application to explore a set of consistent and feasible scenarios for the Swiss energy systems • Analysis, visualization and interpretation of results to derive recommendations and policy implica-tions
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