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Distribution of employment impacts of renewable energy deployment in Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann
2026

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This technical note describes the methodology and provides supplementary results for our contribution to the SWEET EDGE Policy White Paper "Who wins and who loses from the energy transition? Distributional Evidence and Policy Lessons for Switzerland" (Landis et al. 2026). Our contribution estimates the distribution of employment impacts across industries, cantons and regions of different energy transition scenarios for Switzerland. The research was carried out with the support of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy as part of the SWEET consortium EDGE. The authors bear sole responsibility for the conclusions and the results presented in this publication.

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Philippe Thalmann
2026

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/27d4393f-75c6-4215-afc0-8ff41e0b7a54

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