We estimate the effect of an electricity tax on aggregate electricity consumption with the synthetic control method … electricity prices by 5.4-8.0%. We compare the actual and a hypothetical electricity consumption in the years 1999-2006. The … latter is a weighted average of electricity consumption in other Swiss cities and captures the hypothetical situation without …

decommissioning the nuclear power plants for the electricity market and the whole economy. We expect that increased renewable … generation and demand-side policies of the type already envisioned will not suffice to close the supply gap, so that Switzerland … will have to rely on more imports of electricity, moving away from the export surpluses realized almost every year since …

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the role of the Swiss electricity transmission system and the planned network … extensions in the context of Central European electricity market developments and thereby the Swiss and European energy …

measurements of economic activity that are available with a short lag and at high frequency. The consumption of electricity turns …