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:
INNOVATION BY SHARED EFFORTS - Executive Board member Thijs Aarten: ‘You don’t necessarily have to be the cheapest service provider, as long as your services represent the most cost-effective option for the customer.’
GUARDING ALL THE DOORS - Integration of IT systems makes them vulnerable. KEMA helps clients to protect their systems against hostile infiltration
BENEFITS BY DESIGN - Substations play a vital role in T&D operation. Data and automation functions that are available through substation instrumentation and controls are critical to power systems operations, reliability and operations efficiency
LAND RECLAMATION TO GENERATE ENERGY - In the Netherlands, the traditional way of reclaiming waterlogged land was to enclose it behind a dyke, build a few windmills and let the wind do the rest. This strategy remains completely valid today
NERVE-CENTRE FOR ONLINE MONITORING - This summer sees the field deployment of the first sixty PD Online units. The logical and essential follow-up is a control centre, where data from all the units can be received and analyzed
LESS DUST - At certain locations, dust production is inevitable. However, it is very important that dust doesn’t get into sensitive equipment, because it can cause short circuits
MEETING THE STRICT NEW STANDARD - How do you reduce chlorine use in cooling seawater systems by three quarters without any adverse operational consequences? This sounds like a tall order
IF ONE ELEMENT FAILS TO FUNCTION - A low voltage distribution and control panel is the product of a long supply chain; a complex process in which several parties operate relatively independently of each other. And what about the quality?
