Federal Councillor Doris Leuthard at the celebration of the grid transfer

7-2-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — On 3 January 2013, Swissgrid and the previous owners reached a significant milestone in Switzerland’s power history: the Swiss transmission grid was successfully transferred to Swissgrid. To duly celebrate this occasion, Swissgrid organised an evening event on 29 January 2013 in Zurich. Swissgrid was especially honoured to welcome Federal Councillor Doris Leuthard as a guest speaker.

In her speech, Federal Councillor Doris Leuthard praised the transfer of the Swiss transmission grid as an important entrepreneurial step. At the same time, she pointed to areas in which action is necessary in order to prevent the star of Laufenburg from dwindling away into an historical memory and to successfully introduce the Swiss grid into the new European domestic energy market:

• The first step has taken place with the transfer of the Swiss transmission grid to the Swiss transmission system operator Swissgrid as of 2013.
• The second step has been initiated in the form of the national power grid strategy.
• The third step ‒ the pending power negotiations with the EU ‒ still lies ahead. In this area, the question is how Switzerland can best be integrated into the future of European energy and the grid.

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Federal Councillor Doris Leuthard at the celebration of the grid transfer