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:
‘A CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENT’ - Principal Consultant John Parsonage about the integration of the energy markets on the island of Ireland that is to be completed inside a year.
THERE’S A LEAK! - Cracks in steel aren’t easy to find. If you know what you are looking for, you are in position to choose the best method to find it.
GREENHOUSE GASSES AREA GLOBAL PROBLEM - The organization of emission trading has proven to be a complicated matter. ‘Not only for governments, but emission trading is not easy for the companies involved with the allocation plan either’, says Andreas Lippold.
ROADMAP TO THE FUTURE - The utility industry has increasingly turned to information and automation technology as a means to increase the efficiency of operations and to improve customer service.
COMPLEX INSPECTION - Essent asked KEMA to develop a method for inspecting its shutoff valves in the feed water system at a 640 MW gas-fired power plant for cracks.
POWER CABLE SHARES UTILITY TUNNEL - KEMA has made an analysis of the risks associated with routing high-voltage cables through multi-utility tunnels and formulated appropriate recommendations. TRAINING ON THE JOB - Twenty local Eskom personnel have been trained to erect and dismantle the suspension pylons and primary pylons of the Emergency Restoration System.
SHORTER TIME TO MARKET - ‘To ensure that a product meets the highest quality in explosion safety, we work with Notified Bodies already from the early stages of product development in order to reduce re-development costs and time-to-market.’
WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH COPPER? - The European Copper Institute (ECI) promotes the responsible application of copper through research into trends and shifts in copper-relevant markets, such as the energy market.
