Heat Pumps Increasingly Replacing Oil-Fired Heating In Switzerland

(MENAFN- Swissinfo) A quarter of buildings in Switzerland were fitted with heat pumps by the end of 2025. Heating oil remains the main source of energy for heating, but its share is falling, the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) said on Tuesday. This content was published on September 15, 2026 - 14:28 2 minutes Keystone-SDA

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As at December 31, the country had a total of 1.8 million residential buildings and 4.88 million dwellings, according to the FSO. More than one million of these buildings were detached houses, and 55% of them were occupied by just one or two people.

Half of these residential buildings were heated using fossil fuels. Heating oil, accounting for 33%, remains the main source of energy, although this figure has seen a“steady decline” over the last 40 years.

And 17% of buildings were heated by gas. This proportion varies greatly by region: gas heating accounted for 29% of dwellings in urban municipalities and only 4% in rural municipalities.

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