About the Data Collection Project

The Energy Strategy 2050 sets ambitious targets for the future of the Swiss energy supply. Since the referendum in May 2017, many changes have been made to the political and regulatory framework of the Swiss energy system. Many actors are affected by this. In order to achieve an effective implementation of politically and economically feasible measures, it is important to understand the involvement of these different actors.

Yet our understanding of stakeholder involvement in policy-making is far more fragmented, compared to policy and technology support by individual voters in the country. This is why, according to the theoretical framework developed by some of our researchers (Duygan, Kachi, Rinscheid 2019), we collect data on relevant characteristics and practices of energy stakeholders with the following broad goals in mind.

• Detailed understanding and documentation of stakeholder diversity in the context of Swiss energy policy-making.
• Detailed understanding of the interactions of energy actors.
• Understanding the relationships among actors' resource endowments, activities and the political outcomes.

This project is part of the SCCER-CREST (Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research, Society and Transition) of the Swiss Innovation Agency, Innosuisse.

The project overview is available here on the right. >>

The metadata are available here: Metadata.