Where is the burst of energy?

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Gray below, blue above: every climber and every traveler appreciates the power of mountains. Especially when it’s cold outside. That’s when Alpine solar systems are in top shape. They do not have the best efficiency in summer, but in winter, when the snow reflects the sun. Then foggy Mittelland can gather.

But instead of 600 gigawatt hours, the ambitious Grengiols-Solar project in Upper Valais is now being scaled back to 110 gigawatt hours. “We plan for what is feasible,” says the operator.

The fact that large projects are delayed is nothing new. And Sunny people cannot help the fact that politics and society overslept. Solar energy in winter was important even before Putin’s aggressive war against Ukraine.

Still, the Grengiols-Solar abbreviation is annoying. Where else, if not in rich Switzerland, can one achieve great success in a hurry? Where is the energy boom we so badly need? Just yesterday, humanitarian organizations symbolically buried the Morteratsch Glacier. In Africa and the Alps, climate change has serious consequences.

The case of Gringiols shows that the camp of procrastinators and Alpine romantics is larger than one might think. The myth of the Alps, in particular, electrifies all sorts of landscape lovers who have little in common politically, from Greens to SVPs.

Three examples, also from Valais: An impartial interest group that took up arms against an ambitious solar project provided the SVP campaign sheet with a photo montage full of solar panels and thus supported the biggest opponents of an important climate protection law on June 18 .

The interest group is also not averse to displaying the Swiss airline’s video prominently on its website, which aims to highlight the beauty of the Alps – a classic case of greenwashing by a company with a particularly problematic CO2 balance.

In the end, the Green Valais of the whole nation held a referendum against the rapid construction of solar parks. Time is running out in the fight against global warming.

When it comes to climate protection, everyone has to step out of their comfort zone and make compromises. It doesn’t matter if it’s about living in cities, flying or protecting the landscape. Otherwise, the energy boom will not win.

Source: Blick