ESC News
Viola Becattini joins the ESC as Integration Manager for the SWEET ACHIEVE consortium and as Project Manager for the CITru project
The Energy Science Center (ESC) is very pleased to welcome Dr. Viola Becattini to the executive office team. Viola joined the ESC in January 2026.
Energy Now! 4.0 – Taking sustainable solutions from the classroom to industry
On December 16, 2025, the Energy Science Center (ESC) celebrated the conclusion of Energy Now! 4.0. The Final Event, held at the Dozentenfoyer in the ETH Main Building, showcased the results of an intensive ten-week impact accelerator. By bridging the gap between academic research and industrial application, the initiative once again proved that student-led innovation is a cornerstone of the Swiss energy transition.
Future Deployment of Distributed Energy Resources in Switzerland: New Dataset to Support the Transition
Switzerland’s energy transition is accelerating, but planners and
analysts have long faced fragmented or incomplete data on how rooftop
photovoltaics, heat pumps, batteries, and electric vehicles may spreadacross the country. In this blog post, Lorenzo Zapparoli and Alfredo Oneto write about their recent publication and the introduction of a new open dataset that addresses this gap.
Important amendment to the Electricity Supply Ordinance (StromVV) by the Federal Council supports research
On 26 November, the Federal Council approved amendments to the Stromversorgungsverordnung StromVV (Electricity Supply Ordinance) and the Ordinance on the Organisation for Ensuring Economic National Supply in the Electricity Sector. A key change in the StromVV will allow access to anonymised measurement and master data for research purposes in the future.
Which Emissions are really Hard-to-Abate? A Call for Clarity in the Net-Zero Energy Transition
In discussions about the net-zero energy transition, many sectors are often labelled “hard-to-abate”—but what does that really mean? The term has no agreed definition, leading it to be applied loosely and potentially be used as an excuse to delay decarbonization efforts. Vincent Dufour-Décieux, Katrin Sievert, Bjarne Steffen, André Bardow and Tobias Schmidt propose a science-based definition in this new energy blog.