FEDRE has always dealt with energy issues from the point of view of both supply security and the environmental and economic implications. It is called up on by cities and associations committed to discussing immediate and longer term human and environmental security issues with scientists, civil society associations and representatives of involved companies. Today, the production of electricity in Europe (EU 25) relies on the following sources : coal 30,3%, oil 6,3%, gas 17,8%, nuclear 17,8%, hydraulic 10,5%, waste 1,7%, renewable 1%.
The more or less fast dwindling of oil and gas stocks confers a new reality to the use of coal, nuclear energy and renewable energies in the production of the necessary electric power. After a presentation of various scenarios on the role of the different primary energies in Europe's power production, FEDRE's forum will open a responsible dialogue on the various sources and especially on nuclear energy, aiming at evaluating its inherent risks and advantages.

• Presentation of data on the demand for electric power in Europe and the world and perspectives according to different scenarios.

• The respective shares of coal, oil and gas, nuclear, hydraulic, and other renewable energies in energy production.

• Fossil energies stocks, technologies, costs, security, public opinion, international decisions and strategic choices, energy-saving efforts.

  Franco Romerio, University of Geneva, Centre Studies of the problems of Energy (CUEPE)

Panel led by : Dr Jacques Rognon

• Nuclear power: a component to make up an energy deficit
  Jean-Paul Bouttes, research Manager, EDF
  
  
• Fission (EPR, G4)
  Prof Rakesh Chawla, Director of LSR, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
  
  
• Industrial contribution
  Remy Carle, former Chairman, World Association of the Nuclear Operators (WANO)
  
  
• Exploitation
  Peter Hirt, ATEL, Gösgen nuclear plant
  
  
• Fusion
  Prof. Minh Quang Tran, Research Center of the plasma physics (CRPP)

Chairperson : Jacques Deyirmendjian, President, Deynergies, former President of Gaz de France International

Appropriateness and constraints from a production of electricity to natural gas development
Philippe Méan, Director, EOS Holding [intervention]

Will we have these next years the capable engineers to design, produce, exploit, maintain and dismantle the equipment and the processes necessary to the implementation of the evolutions under consideration in the field of energies?

Giorgio Margaritondo, vice President EPFL [intervention]

Chairperson: Ioannis Galanis, Head of Unit Oil-Coal, DG Tren, European Commission

• Importance of coal in the world
  Brian Ricketts, Energy Analyst, AIE
  
  
• Perspectives and development
  Giovanni Brustia*, Power Division, Foster Wheeler Continental Europe
  
  
• The capture of CO2
  Mourad Younes, School of the Mines of Paris
  Dr. Ing. Tore A Torp, Adviser CO2 Storage, Statoil Forskningssenter, Research Center

Michael Kaufmann, Chief of the SwissEnergy Programme, vice Director of the Swiss Federal Office for Energy (OFEN)
Raymond Battistella, General director, SIG
Eliane Rey, City Councillor, Lausanne

• Hydraulic
  Jean-Michel Devernay, deputy Director, Centre d'ingéniérie hydraulique d'EDF
  Alexandre Joly, General Director, Compagnie Nationale de Rhône (CNR)
  Philippe Verburgh, Energy Director, SIG

• Solaire
  Jacques de Lalaing, Solar Power Group

• Wind turbines
  Frank Hensel, Desalination department, Enercon
  

• Geothermal power
  François David Vuataz, [intervention] Director, Centre for Geothermal Research (CREGE), Neuchâtel
  Robert Dietrich, General Manager, Géothermie Bouillante SA