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Bioenergy hotspots combined with socio-economic analysis:
an important step to support the future energy transition
V. Burg1, G. Bowman1, L. Mohr2, E. Trutnevyte2,3, O. Thees1
1 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL Zürcherstr. 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, 2Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich, Universitätsstr. 16, 8092 Zurich, 3 Renewable Energy Systems, Department FOREL, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Uni Carl Vogt, Blvd. Carl Vogt 66, 1211 Genève 4.
03/09/2019 vanessa.burg@wsl.ch
Goal: Identification of hot‐ and coldspots in terms of bioenergy and their socio‐economic characteristics in order to promote a fast and effective uptake of bioenergy in Switzerland.
Methods: Hotspot analysis was used to explore the sustainable bioenergy potentials of 2294 Swiss municipalities and identify spatial aggregation of statistically above‐average or below‐average values.
Results: Swiss bioenergy hotspots lie in urban or intensely farmed areas of the Central Plateau, while the coldspots are located in the Alps.
These results help to find hotspots where future bioenergy projects are best located from a resource and socio‐
economic view and allow bioenergy promotion strategies tailored to local circumstances.
(L. Mohr, V. Burg, O. Thees, E. Trutnevyte, Spatial hot spots and clusters of bioenergy combined with socio‐economic analysis in Switzerland, Renewable Energy 140 (2019) 840‐851.)
⯈ All biomass (sustainable potential per area)
Hotspot: High population density. Many enterprises, high income. Big share of settlement and/or agricultural area. Liberal, not very religious. Just barely for the energy strategy.
Coldspot: Low population density. Big share of forested area, small share of settlement and agricultural area. Religious. Few enterprises, small income. In favor of the energy strategy.
Not significant: Politically somewhere in between the hot‐ and coldspots. High agricultural and wood bioenergy potentials.
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Forest wood (sustainable potential per area)
Hotspot: Large share of forested area, average agricultural area. Protestant and right‐
leaning. Less favorable to the energy strategy. Coldspot
Not significant
⯈ And how does the hotspots look like for the two main biomass types?
Manure (sustainable potential per area)
Hotspot: Many jobs in the first sector.
Large share of agricultural area. Low crime rate. Religious and many voters for SVP.
Rather less favorable to the energy strategy.
Coldspot
Not significant
(WSL data on geo.admin)
