POWER
Swiss hydropower reserves last week – calendar week 47 – declined by 4.2 percentage points last week to 68.6% of capacity, the lowest level since early July, BFE data showed.
- Reserves widened the deficit to the five-year average to 10.1 points, compared with 9.3 percentage points the week prior.
- Stocks also widened the deficit to the long-term average – since 1997 – last week to 5.1 points, from 4.1 points the week before.
- Power demand in Switzerland last week rose to 8.28GW, up from 8.01GW the week before.
- Swiss hydropower output from pumped storage declined by 379MW last week to 852MW. Run-of-river generation was broadly stable at 186MW last week, while output from reservoirs declined by 253MW to 1.69GW.
- Nuclear generation in Switzerland was broadly stable last week at 2.96GW.
- Precipitation in the hydro-intensive region of Sion stood at 41.7mm last week, well above the seasonal average of 29.9mm.
- The L'Ecreuleuse measuring point saw 167cm of new snow in the past seven days with snow levels at 99cm on 26 November, White Risk data showed.
- Looking ahead, the latest Bloomberg 6-10 day ECMWF weather forecast for this week suggested Sion will see 12.8mm of precipitation, compared with the seasonal average of 27.11mm. Snowfall this week is forecast to total 3.9cm.
- The latest Swiss hydrobalance is forecast to end this week at -1.46TWh. The balance is further expected to narrow to 1.87TWh on 11 December.
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