KEMA's smart grid activities include testing and certification, where it is a global leader. In addition to its capabilities, it also boasts several unique KEMA smart grid testing facilities where it can thoroughly test and certify products. KEMA's smart grid standards work is also an important part of its contribution to the industry. It had revenues of $375 million in 2010.
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A high-powered energy collective is moving into the design phase for five smart grid demonstration projects in the Netherlands. The group intends to design, implement and study smart grid operations and concepts - and also focus on thousands of technology-related standards.
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Advanced metering infrastructure is a critical component of the smart grid initiative, no question there. But do we really know if we're getting what we want out of the investment in time and money; or might there be a better approach to ensure that we do? Ron Chebra of DNV KEMA provides a truly compelling case for a re-think in a recent blog post.
In this video from SmartGridSherpa.com, DNV KEMA discusses how the future smart grid will manage the discrepancy between peak electricity hours and the variable generation of renewable energy. Discussion of DNV KEMA's pilot project, PowerMatching City, helps explain the smart grid and prove the systems feasibility and reliability.
Our recent piece suggesting utility CEOs are asking the wrong question about the smart grid struck a nerve with Rob Wilhite, DNV KEMA's Global Director. He argues that utility CEOs his firm works with are posing strategic questions – such as the value-add for energy consumers once the smart grid is deployed. See if you agree with his take on using customer segmentation to tailor those value-adds.
Energy consulting, testing and certification will be the focus of a new global company being formed by DNV and KEMA. It looks like a good strategic match. Click to find out why, and for more on the new company's vision.
KEMA this week launched its Smart Grid Interop Lab in Erlanger, Kentucky to test the latest smart grid technologies. Click inside for details and a tour; we've got video on what KEMA says is the first-of-its-kind facility in the world.
Testing and certification firm KEMA has selected Green Energy's GreenBus software platform for its Smart Grid Interop Lab, an independent test facility that provides independent verification of device interoperability and a platform for utilities to manage risk exposure and ensure efficient smart grid deployments. There's more inside.
Most of the discussion on educating consumers about the smart grid has focused on smart meters. But effective consumer engagement isn't a limited-time offer, it's a mindset. Click inside for insights from the smart folks at KEMA about some of the customer-focused actions utilities should consider next.
For utilities skittish about investing in energy storage technologies, KEMA offers possibly just what the doctor ordered: a storage performance modeling tool designed to help take the guesswork out of which technology to choose and that other big question, return on investment.
Duke Energy and energy consulting and testing company KEMA are collaborating to develop smart grid interoperability product and service testing and certification. The project, The Smart Grid Interop Lab, will give utilities and technology providers independent verification of device specifications as well as certification of compliance with current and new standards.
Boeing and testing and consulting engineering firm KEMA will work together to develop smart grid technologies in the areas of advanced systems development and integration, technical design and interoperability testing and cyber security.
Transmission owners are already implementing advanced power electronics for a variety of applications. Now some are taking it a step further to strengthen their systems and account for variable power flows that result from wind and solar penetration. KEMA's Siri Varadan explains why there's never been a better time to investigate what advanced power electronics can achieve.
When applications are better matched with practical needs, we will be better positioned to capitalize on smart grid investments. That’s why the industry cannot ignore the need for new system protection strategies. KEMA VP Ron Willoughby has more.
Grid-scale storage may not be widespread enough today to defer new transmission, but KEMA storage expert Rick Fioravanti argues it’s an angle worth exploring. As new technologies emerge, it may be closer than you think.
One of the industry’s leading experts on energy storage technologies is here with insights on Community Energy Storage (CES). KEMA’s Ali Nourai considers CES an attractive and viable storage device for the Smart Grid and believes CES devices can potentially overcome the top three barriers to storage development.
KEMA’s Rick Fioravanti kicks off a new series today with a look at how grid-connected energy storage, including new fast-storage battery and flywheel technologies, can complement regulation response, spinning reserves, renewables balancing and other generation applications.
KEMA and Power Grid Technology Consulting LLC (PGTC) have entered a teaming agreement to provide comprehensive transmission applications support to the electric utility industry. In particular, the collaboration will expand support solutions for utilities implementing flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS) and high voltage DC transmission systems (HVDC) to “smarten” their transmission assets and to enhance the reliability and security of their power system operations.
Sixnet, a global market leader of machine-to-machine (M2M) networking solutions for industrial and wireless markets, today announced it has achieved KEMA approval for its EL228 industrial Ethernet switch platform. Sixnet recently completed the testing process at KEMA’s testing laboratory in the Netherlands.
KEMA (www.kema.com) today released the first independent guidebook on integrating wide-scale energy storage in the electric power infrastructure. Volume two of KEMA's Utility of the Future series, "The Promise of Energy Storage," explores the issues and questions surrounding the rapidly advancing technology. The guidebook provides a broad assessment of the electricity storage field and the latest thinking about applications. It also describes how to assess when there is a good business case for storage and when there is not -- and examines the implications of including storage in grid design and operation, the economics of storage, and the policy issues being raised.
KEMA is offering insight on and solutions for keeping smart projects on track in the post-stimulus award era. The US is at a point of historic transformation of the electric grid infrastructure. Implementing the smart grid on a national scale poses significant challenges—and opportunities—both for projects selected for a US Department of Energy (DOE) Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG), and for those moving ahead with projects without grant funding.
The amount of money invested in the Smart Grid is expected to grow fivefold over the next 20 years. That’s according to Rob Wilhite, senior vice president of global energy and utility consulting firm KEMA, Inc. Wilhite’s comments about Smart Grid investment were based on KEMA research and came in a keynote address at the 16th annual Innovations conference hosted by Apogee International.
A 17-page presentation from a leading consulting engineering firm with an overview of Smart Grid components, regulatory issues and progress. Most valuable for several slides explaining barriers that are often overlooked, including consumer resistance, and for a list of questions utilities should be asking themselves.
Produced by consulting firm KEMA on behalf of the GridWise Alliance trade association, this 31-page report estimates the job creation potential of the Smart Grid. It concludes that a disbursement of $16 billion over 4 years could catalyze an additional $64 billion in related projects that could create approximately 280,000 new direct jobs, of which 140,000 would persist long-term. Written to an industry audience, it may be useful not just for its conclusions, but for its explanations of its methodology, which could be applied by any organization seeking to justify Smart Grid expenditures on the basis of economic impact (including those applying for government stimulus funding).
This report contains KEMA’s load impact evaluation of Pacific Gas & Electric’s SmartAC Program after its first year of operation (2007). The results provided in this report show that the SmartAC program successfully reduced air conditioning load during the event periods.
Three new demonstration projects caught our attention - a smart grid effort in Albuquerque's business district, a rapid recovery transformer study in Texas and a trial involving low voltage current sensor technologies in the UK. They also got us to thinking: At this stage in the smart grid build out, if you could design a demonstration project, what would it entail? That's our latest Tuesday Topic; click for the details.
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