Every day the electricity from energy producers finds its way to your power socket: at the right time, in the right amount and at market prices. Thanks to the 300 or so employees at Swissgrid.

Swissgrid operates Switzerland's transmission system. The Swiss transmission system is an ultra-high-voltage grid, which is used to transport energy over long distances and has two main responsibilities:

• The transportation of electricity from the producing power plant to the end consumer via the transmission system and then onwards via regional and local mains distributors to domestic power sockets.
• Electricity is traded, exported and imported in Europe. Situated at the heart of Europe, Switzerland has an important role as a transit country: electricity exports from Germany to Italy travel via Switzerland and the story is the same for the East-West axis.

Swissgrid's responsibility is to ensure that the balance between electricity consumption and production is maintained at all times. This is the only way to ensure that the grid remains stable, i.e. operates at the standard frequency of 50 Hertz. If this balance is disturbed, the frequency will fall below or rise above 50 Hertz. Swissgrid is charged with neutralising these deviations.

Swissgrid maintains a broad information technology (IT) infrastructure in order to adequately model the current Swiss 380/220 kV grid. For this purpose, 25,000 measurements and the switch positions of all grid elements are cyclically recorded and processed – typically every 20 seconds. The control centre Swissgrid Control monitors the grid 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.