Wood could be 50% of Swiss renewable energy in 2025

[The Straight Story]

Wood could be 50% of Swiss renewable energy in 2025


Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland’s forests are growing rather than shrinking, and they could provide as much as 50 percent of the country’s renewable sources of energy by 2025. A new government reports notes that wood for energy use today could double, from 3.5 percent of all energy sources to 7 percent.

The price of wood is expected to climb by 2025, to 30 percent above the price in 2005. Wood is traded on a free market.

Switzerland, like the rest of Europe, has followed for a number of years a policy of not consuming more wood than it produces.

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