DNV KEMA establishes Beijing HQ

29 April 2012


DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability is setting up its Asia Pacific Headquarters for services towards the transmission and cleaner energy sectors in Beijing. “DNV is committed to help China develop a safer, more efficient and reliable energy supply system with improved fossil and renewable power generation to support China’s growth ambitions and development towards a low carbon economy,” said DNV’s group CEO Henrik Madsen. The Beijing office currently has ongoing operations in Korea, Australia, India, Singapore, Malaysia and China.

The establishment of this second clean technology headquarters for Asia Pacific follows DNV’s acquisition of 74.3 % of KEMA shares in February 2012, resulting in a new company called DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability. Before joining the DNV Group, KEMA had acquired a majority interest in Sinopower, a China based energy consultancy firm.

A report made by the Wind Energy Committee of the China Renewable Energy Society (CRES) estimates that China lost nearly 10 billion kWh of wind power generated electricity in 2011 due to the limited access to the power grid. But China’s 12th Five-Year Plan puts increased emphasis on cleaner energy sources to ensure sustainable growth. It has an ambitious goal of cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 40-45% by 2020 relative to 2005 levels, and to push the use of non-fossil fuels to 15% of the country’s total energy use by 2020. Over the next 10 years investments of some RMB 11 trillion will be done in the power industry. RMB 2.5 trillion is to be invested in power grid construction.

In March this year, DNV KEMA and China Electricity Power Research Institute signed a Letter of Intent for co-operation in the fields of consulting, testing, inspection and certification services in the areas of renewable power generation and transmission & distribution. Both companies started exploring co-operation in the area of grid integration of renewable energy sources in 2011. They have agreed to conduct a pilot project in the near future to study the real behaviour of a wind farm at the grid connection point by using DNV KEMA’s simulation methodology.

DNV established its first presence in China back in 1888. DNV’s growth increased after 1979, when China adopted an open and reform oriented policy. Today China is one of the DNV's most important markets.




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