Global Contact

Issue 1-2010

Global Contact is KEMA’s worldwide quarterly magazine that is distributed among 13.000 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 industrial trends and topics, and the divers projects KEMA and her clients are working on.

This issue features:

"Forty years from now, electricity generation can be CO2 neutral” - Member organizations of the European electricity industry association, EURELECTRIC, have committed to CO2-neutral electricity supply by 2050. EURELECTRIC Secretary General Hans ten Berge is expecting CO2 trading to deliver a great deal: market mechanisms should make it attractive to invest in CO2-free power.
Carbon Compliance Strategy for Uncertain Times - The State of Colorado’s Governor established greenhouse gas reduction goals asking each utility in the state to prepare a climate action plan. Platte River engaged us to help develop its plan.
Towards Carbon Capture, Transport and Storage - CO2 capture, transport and storage (CCS) is a key technology for reducing emissions from fossil fuel power plants. We focus on finding innovative and integrated technical and business solutions for CCS.
The cost of renewable energy generation - The California Energy Commission engaged KEMA to develop cost estimates for renewable energy technologies likely to be deployed in California in the next 20 years.
Investing in sustainable transmission - The sale of German energy giant E.ON’s high-voltage network to Dutch transmission system operator TenneT made TenneT Europe’s first transnational TSO. KEMA played its part by assessing all the technical risks with particular attention given to offshore wind energy.
Middle East at a turning point - Floris Schulze, who recently assumed responsibility for KEMA's activities in the Middle East sees environmental and water management as more significant development areas.
Dutch offshore wind ambitions realistic with effective coordination - The Dutch government’s plan to realize 6000 MW of offshore wind-powered generating capacity by 2020 is feasible, but only if a big concerted effort is made. That is the central conclusion of a study undertaken by KEMA for the energy and environmental sector.
Laptop needs top lab - Do we still need laboratories now that computers are so powerful and so much can be established by modeling? Only a physical test can tell us exactly when a circuit breaker or transformer is performing as it should.
Transparent asset management - A network operator has responsibility for assets that have a very high economic value. A structured approach to asset management provides a basis for rational risk assessment. Which in turn contributes to objective and transparent decision-making.