10 - Watts & Wallets: Visualizing Energy & Money Flows in Switzerland’s Power Market
The Swiss electricity market is a complex system where both money and energy flow through multiple actors. Based on provided data, your challenge is to develop visualizations that make these flows transparent and understandable, highlighting the differences between regulated customers and the free market. The goal is to turn complex data into clear, engaging insights for experts, policymakers, and the public.
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Postdate 25.08.2025
The Swiss electricity market involves energy and monetary flows along the entire value chain. From generation through trading and distribution to end customers. Different generation technologies, grid costs, and energy prices shape these dynamics, while regulated customers face different conditions than those in the free market. Despite the importance of these flows, the system is often perceived as difficult to understand.
Your challenge is to create innovative visualizations that reveal how energy and money circulate within the market.
Possible questions include: Who pays whom, and how do physical and financial flows align? What are the cost components along the value chain, and how do they differ between market segments? How can future scenarios be represented?
The expected outcome is a collection of visualization or storytelling prototype that makes the Swiss electricity market more transparent, accessible, and engaging. By translating complex data into intuitive visuals, your work should help experts, decision-makers, and the public better understand the hidden flows of energy and money.
Why participate:
- Work with real-world data from the Swiss electricity market and turn complexity into clarity.
- Develop valuable skills in data analysis, visualization, and storytelling that are relevant across energy, finance, and tech.
- Collaborate in a multidisciplinary setting and bring together expertise from coding, design, and energy.
- Be creative and have fun.