European Federation of Executives in the Sectors of Energy and related Research
The FECER (Fédération Européenne des Cadres de l’Energie et de la Recherche) held its 2024 General Assembly in Alsace. FECER, one of the components of the CEC European Managers, once again placed the reality on the ground with a site visit at the heart of its reflections and positions on European energy policy.
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The EU currently counts around 10 million managers who make millions of decisions every day, affecting the sustainability of our economy, society, and environment. Millions of decisions are made daily concerning employees on, for instance, recruitment, appointments, regulations, and dismissals. All decisions are made with careful consideration in the interest of the company, the context, and the task at hand.
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The European Federation of Executives in Energy and Research (FECER) is calling for consideration to be given to the full range of possibilities in research and development and in the construction and operation of low-carbon energy production facilities. This demand echoes not only the motto of the European Union « United in diversity » but also the geographical, political and historical facts of our continent.
Read moreFECER President Anne Laszlo recently visited Confcuadros (Confederation de Cuadros y Profesionales, CCP) in Madrid. She met with the President and Secretary General of the Confederation of Spanish managers, and the new President of its Energy Federation, Álvaro Muñoz at the CCP headquarters.
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The agreement reached at COP28 in Dubai may give an indication to achieve net zero by 2050, although the text leaves room for interpretation. But as all such climate deals, there is no enforcement mechanism to press the governments to implement such actions or to convince businesses that oil, gas and coal are no longer the solid investments they once were.
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FECER, represented by its President Anne LASZLO, took part in the Sustainable Leaders Summit, organised for the third time by CEC European Managers at the end of November in Brussels. This meeting of executives and managers from all over Europe, as well as students, was devoted to the role of European leaders in responding to the immense challenge of our time, the climate and nature crisis. With its project on sustainable leadership and thanks to the financial support of the European Commission, CEC European Managers is helping to integrate sustainable skills, behaviours and values into European management.
Read moreThe FECER puts the skills of its members at the service of managers in the energy and research sectors in Europe. From now on, it also wants to make its voice heard more loudly on energy and research issues. « Preserving Europe’s economic and climatic future, thanks to all low-carbon energies, while respecting technological neutrality, is a priority that requires the mobilisation of everyone« , declares Anne LASZLO, the association’s new president.
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At the Ignalina nuclear power plant in Lithuania, everything is huge. The building, which housed the two RBMK reactors and the engine room, is 660 metres long. The two 1500 MW reactors, commissioned in 1983 and 1987, were the most powerful in the world at the time. A third of the 4 planned reactors was under construction when Lithuania chose to join the European Union. 5,000 men and women were producing electricity in the geographical triangle of Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus. So it’s hardly surprising that the plant’s employees speak with pride of their industrial heritage. But the closure of this Chernobyl-type boiling water plant was a sine qua non condition for Lithuania’s accession to the European Union. The reactors were definitively shut down in 2004 and 2009 respectively, and their dismantling is largely subsidised by the European Union. Read more
After its annual General Assembly held in Mol, Belgium, the European Federation of Executives in the Sectors of Energy and related Research (FECER) was received by the management of the nearby Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK CEN.
FECER representatives from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Lithuania met in Budapest to better understand the issues and challenges of energy policy in Hungary, and to discuss developments in the composition of the European energy system.
This workshop, which was decided at the end of 2021, proved to be particularly topical in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.