Swissgrid

Swissgrid AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	2005
Seat	Aarau , Switzerland
management	Yves Zumwald ( CEO ), ; Adrian Bult ( Chairman of the Board )
Number of employees	500 (April 1, 2019)
Branch	Transmission system operator
Website	www.swissgrid.ch

The Swiss Grid AG with offices in Aarau and Prilly is the Swiss transmission system operator . It is subject to the supervision of the Federal Electricity Commission ElCom.

history

Headquarters, Bleichmattstrasse in Aarau, 2020

Swissgrid was created in the course of the liberalization of the electricity market and was founded in January 2005 by the large Swiss electricity network companies. From December 15, 2006. Coordinated Swissgrid that up to this time eight control zones existing transmission network (380/220 kV) in Switzerland. With the changeover from eight to one nationwide control area in the night from December 31, 2008 to January 1, 2009, Swissgrid took over the operation of the entire 6,700-kilometer high-voltage network.

With the entry in the commercial register on January 3, 2013, Swissgrid became the new owner of the Swiss transmission network. Since then, the national grid company Swissgrid has not only been responsible for the operation of the transmission grid, but is also responsible for its maintenance, renewal and expansion. This fulfills the legal requirement that the electricity companies must have transferred the transmission network to Swissgrid by January 1, 2013 at the latest.

organization

Swissgrid has four corporate divisions: Grid Infrastructure, Market, Technology and Corporate Services.

The Electricity Supply Act requires that the majority of the members and the chairman of the board of directors as well as the members of the management do not belong to bodies of legal persons that carry out activities in the fields of electricity generation or trade, or that they have a service relationship with such legal persons. The board of directors currently consists of five industry representatives and four industry representatives. The Chairman of the Board of Directors is appointed from the side of the industry-independent.

Ownership structure

BKW Netzbeteiligung AG 36.12%
Axpo Power AG 22.69%
Axpo Solutions AG 8.75%
Electricity company of the city of Zurich (EWZ) 8.74%
SIRESO Société d'Investissement de Suisse occidentale SA 5.24%
Centralschweizerische Kraftwerke AG 4.21%
Kraftwerke Hinterrhein AG 1.87%
Azienda Elettrica Ticinese (AET) 1.66%
Officine idroelettriche della Maggia SA (Ofima) 1.57%
Kraftwerke Linth-Limmern AG 1.53%
SN Energie AG 1.29%
Forces Motrices Valaisannes SA (FMV) 1.11%
Industrial Works Basel (IWB) 0.78%
Forces Motrices de Mauvoisin SA 0.76%
EnAlpin AG 0.74%
Nant de Drance SA 0.70%
Officine Idroelettriche di Blenio SA (Ofible) 0.45%
Kraftwerke Oberhasli AG 0.44%
Aziende Industriali di Lugano SA (AIL) 0.44%
Kraftwerke Mattmark AG 0.40%
Electricity company Obwalden 0.15%
Engadiner Kraftwerke AG 0.12%
Kraftwerke Vorderrhein AG 0.12%
General Electric Technology GmbH 0.09%
Kraftwerke Sarganserland AG (KSL) 0.02%
AEK Energie AG <0.01%
Aare supply AG (AVAG) <0.01%
Alpiq Suisse SA <0.01%
Electra-Massa AG <0.01%
Forces Motrices Hongrin-Léman SA (FMHL) <0.01%
Grande Dixence SA <0.01%
Repower AG <0.01%

Cooperations

As part of the European electricity exchange, the company was a member of the European Union for the Co-ordination of Transmission of Electricity (UCTE) and the organization of European Transmission System Operators (ETSO). Both associations have since merged into the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E), which was founded in Prague in December 2008 and began operating in summer 2009.

In addition, Swissgrid is a member of the TSO Security Cooperation (TSC) and has been a shareholder in the Capacity Allocation Service Company (CASC) since November 2010.

Key figures of the Swiss transmission network

Laufenburg substation in Kaisten

The 6700 km long Swiss transmission network is operated with operating voltages of 220 kilovolts and 380 kilovolts as well as a frequency of 50 Hertz. It has 145 switchgear and around 12,000 electricity pylons .

Cost-covering feed-in tariff (Pronovo)

In May 2017, the Swiss electorate adopted the Energy Act (EnG) , which came into force on January 1, 2018. Among other things, it stipulates that the execution of the network surcharge collection, the payment of the KEV and one- off payments as well as the issuing of guarantees of origin be outsourced to an independent enforcement agency. As an accredited certification body, Swissgrid has been directly responsible for these activities on behalf of the federal government since 2007.

The company registered in the commercial register of the Canton of Aargau as Pronovo AG is a wholly owned subsidiary of Swissgrid and is subject to the supervision of the Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) . The subsidiary with around 60 employees is based in Frick (AG). The newly created executive office began operations on January 3, 2018.