Adrian Baicusi, the new CEO of Transelectrica, says it was his decision to trade the private environment for the state one, and taking over the helm of the national grid company was not the only option the former CEO of Siemens Romania considered.
After leaving Siemens, Baicusi temporarily ran Depenbrock Romania, a company particularly specialising in constructions, in its early stages of development domestically.
"(...) Depenbrock did not offer me the adrenaline I needed. Indeed, there I could relive my experience with OMV Romania, where I had started from scratch, too but I decided my expertise could be better used with Transelectrica. I had two options, Transelectrica or Nuclearelectrica. I chose the former because my experience in the nuclear field is not so vast," says Baicusi.
The new Transelectrica CEO admits the pay package in the state-owned company does not equal the one in the private environment, but says there are things compensating this potential financial loss. The only thing he perceives as a shortcoming of the state sector is the excessive red tape.
Baicusi, 44, says no field will avoid the financial crisis, despite several opinions that energy is among the fields where the impact of the current financial situation will not be felt very strongly.
"There are two things we cannot anticipate about the crisis: length and depth. Nobody's ready and I believe this is the most difficult period Romania has to live through. We are now living the reverse of globalisation. You do well when everybody does, and when everybody else starts having problems, you do poorly, too. We should be rational enough to use our resources efficiently. (...) There will be no field left unharmed as we all use the same financial system," Baicusi believes.
He says, though, that it is much too early to make estimates about energy consumption, thoug
