Budgets for renewables and energy efficiency under the ‘SwissEnergy’ programme will be reduced by over 20 % to 45 million CHF (35 million USD) within the next three years.

Funding will effectively be removed from further pilot and demonstrations projects. The residential market continues to rely on private investment as there is currently no government support in most of the cantons for PV market development, though a nationwide preferential feed-in tariff – albeit at a comparatively low level – is being defined.

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