Electricity mix further optimized

Swiss Post invests even more in renewable energy

Swiss Post operates photovoltaic installations on the roofs of eight buildings. Another eight are planned.

Swiss Post is optimizing the quality of its electricity mix and producing more and more solar power on the roofs of its building, most recently on the roof of the Daillens parcel centre, Swiss Post's largest photovoltaic installation in western Switzerland.

Since 2013, Swiss Post has not only obtained its electricity from 100 percent renewable energy sources in Switzerland, it is now also fully “naturemade basic” certified. Of this, 5 percent, or 8.3 gigawatt hours, is “naturemade star” certified green electricity produced by wind turbines on Mount Crosin in the canton of Jura and from farms, small businesses and small ecological hydroelectric power stations.

Swiss Post completes solar power plant in Daillens

In November 2013, Swiss Post completed the construction of a photovoltaic installation on the roof of the Daillens parcel centre. With a surface area of over 8,000 square metres and 4,960 panels, the installation is one of the largest in western Switzerland. It will generate up to 1,200 megawatt hours of electricity each year. That is equivalent to the electricity consumption of around 330 Swiss households over the same period. Compared to the same amount of electricity from the Swiss grid, this solar power emits 160 tonnes less CO₂ every year.

Five more photovoltaic installations came on stream in 2013: on the roof of the Frauenfeld parcel centre and on other Swiss Post buildings in Sion, Geneva, Locarno and Giubiasco. Together with the installations in Yverdon and Zurich-Mülligen, which have been in operation since 2012, Swiss Post now operates a total of eight photovoltaic installations. Eight more installations are either planned or are under construction. On completion of all these projects, Swiss Post plans to feed a total of around 7,600 megawatt hours of solar electricity into the national grid each year by 2016. By doing so, Swiss Post is making an important contribution to implementing the Confederation's Energy Strategy 2050.