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: 

BRIDGING THE GAP. - According to Hugo van Nispen, director of KEMA Consulting in the US the interest in how energy companies conduct their business is increasing exponentially
ONLINE CABLE MONITORING PROVEN IN THE FIELD. - Barely two years since KEMA demonstrated that the condition of cable links could in principle be monitored continuously from a remote location, data are flowing back to the control center from the first twenty monitoring units.
WATER-GUZZLER TURNS WATER PRODUCER. -A membrane system that extracts clean water from flue gas can provide water and cut an average plant’s energy bill by a million euros a year.SLIM PYLONS. - KEMA developed a bi-pole system based on pairs of slim, ‘minimalist’ high-voltage pylons to minimize the magnetic field
ACCREDITATION IN CHINA. - KEMA has become the first foreign certification body to secure permission to establish a wholly independent business in China.
CRACKLING HIGH-VOLTAGE LINES? - TSO TenneT commissioned KEMA to investigate the validity of the complaints about noise from an 400 kV line by recording the number of electrical discharges.
FIBER OPTICS ENHANCE RELIABILITY IN THAILAND. - The Provincial Electricity Authority of Thailand is considering implementing an Integrated Network Management System to monitor and control its fiber optic communications network
GiANT AMPLIFIER FOR POWER ELECTRONICS. - From 2008 power electronics manufacturers and researchers will be able to turn to the innovative Power Electronics Laboratory, which is currently nearing completion.