Global Contact is KEMA’s worldwide quarterly magazine that is distributed among 15.000 of KEMA’s clients and relations. Global Contact is a broad platform. It includes news from around KEMA as well as articles providing insight into today’s critical energy and utility trends and topics, and the divers projects KEMA and her clients are working on.
This issue features:
‘The knife cuts both ways’. The total energy demand continues to increase every year... considerably. Enormous investments are being made in power plants to keep up with the energy needs. According to KEMA CEO Pier Nabuurs, for many countries there is also another solution to deal with this problem: demand side management.
Gateway to stored data. ‘By analyzing numbers from the real situation we could quickly and easily implement an effective improvement with relatively simple changes. This project paid for itself within two years.’
Smart meters good for Netherlands Inc. Are smart energy meters good for the economy? This is the question that the Dutch government put to KEMA. And it turns out that the country as a whole would profit from the large-scale introduction of digital meters.
Cable peeling. Peeling a cable? Nothing unusual when a high-voltage cable assembly is tested according to the applicable IEC standard.
‘They want the proof’. ‘Something can always happen, and we must have absolute certainty. It is a contractual promise to our clients. They want the proof. This way we can give them maximum confidence.’
Medium voltage is no less important. That the KEMA high-power laboratory performs tests of large devices is not news. These are devices with voltages to 800 kV and/or currents to 400 kA. Well known, and no less important is that there is also room for the ‘little guys’ in the medium-voltage segment.
Highly-charged leak detection situation. SF6 gas is indispensable for insulation and fire-extinguishing purposes in high-voltage installations. But it is also a very potent greenhouse gas. If energy companies want to continue using it, they must handle it extremely carefully.
Guiding utility growth strategies for a new era. The energy and utility industries face continually evolving challenges. Today’s economic, technical, regulatory and business trends put pressure on energy industry executives to redefine their competitive value, while seeking earnings growth consistent with the risk tolerance of their core investors.
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