Switzerland has its eyes set on a clean energy future. On Sunday, Swiss voters backed the government’s plan to provide billions of dollars in subsidies for renewable energy, ban new nuclear plants and help bail out struggling utilities. The Swiss initiative mirrors efforts elsewhere in Europe to reduce dependence on nuclear power, partly sparked by Japan’s Fukushima disaster in 2011. Germany aims to phase out nuclear nuclear power by 2022, while Austria banned it decades ago.
The Swiss choose clean energy future and ban new nuclear power plants
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