The public is not yet aware of the fact that sewage and waste disposal plants, as well as drinking water suppliers, today produce as much as 80% of the so-called 'renewable energy' in Switzerland. This production can be doubled in the future: in order to transform the great potential still offered by waste heat and district heating sources into 'green' energy, to inform the public and to increase their political clout, the trade associations VSA, VBSA, SVGW, the Swiss District Heating Association (VFS) and representatives of the economy and the electricity industry came together at the constitutive assembly of the, in a new association called InfraWatt.
The association also consists of political representatives to improve the implementation of framework measures for the development of energy projects, but also to represent the needs of this sector.

For Italian-speaking Switzerland, the Institute of Applied Sustainability to the Built Environment is the competence centre.