CHINT – CHINT & KEMA Labs Strategic Alliance for Electrical Excellence
On December 3rd, a strategic cooperation signing ceremony was held between CHINT and KEMA Labs, marking a significant milestone in their partnership.
Leaders and representatives from both sides gathered to witness this historic moment. During the strategic cooperation conference, they shared insights on the development prospects of the global industry and the direction of technological evolution, further upgrading their strategic cooperation plans. Their long-standing collaboration demonstrates the close partnership and reflects a shared commitment to enhancing product quality and safety on a global scale. Through their close collaboration, they look forward to achieving more efficient and safer circulation of electrical products worldwide, delivering superior products and services to global customers and partners.
KEMA Labs is a globally recognized authority in consulting, testing, and certification within the electricity and energy sectors. With state-of-the-art world-class laboratories, KEMA Labs is a member of STL, IEC, and CIGRE, offering professional testing, inspection, and certification services to ensure products meet stringent safety and performance standards. Their services span a wide range of areas, including low-voltage to ultra-high voltage power transmission and distribution equipment, new energy, electric vehicles, smart grids, and more. KEMA enjoys a high international reputation, and its certificates and reports are considered a vital assurance of product quality and safety.
This strategic cooperation between CHINT and KEMA Labs signifies another solid step for CHINT in technological innovation. By deepening their comprehensive cooperation, they aim to further explore new areas in the development of the electrical industry, continuously injecting new momentum into the sustainable development of the sector.
Before the signing ceremony, KEMA Labs’ delegation toured the CHINT Smart exhibition hall, where accompanying staff provided detailed explanations of CHINT’s latest R&D achievements. CHINT’s leadership attended the event that day.
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More information on Nan Cunhui (Chairman, Zhengtai Group + Chairman, CHINT Group): See the full profile on EMR Executive Services
More information on Lily Zhang (Executive President, CHINT Electric + President and Chief Executive Officer, CHINT Global): See the full profile on EMR Executive Services
More information on KEMA Labs by CESI SpA: https://www.cesi.it/about-us/overview/kema/ + KEMA Labs is world renowned Testing, Inspections & Certification organization. Located at several sites across the globe, we combine traditional with state-of-the-art gear to ensure every kind of grid equipment, from medium- to ultra high-voltage , can be tested, satisfying today’s increasingly demanding criteria for performance and safety .
More information on Nicola Melchiotti (Group Chief Executive Officer, CESI SpA): https://www.cesi.it/about-us/management-team/ + https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicola-melchiotti-3a3b0/
More information on Domenico Villani (Executive Vice President, Testing, Inspection and Certification, CESI SpA): https://www.cesi.it/about-us/management-team/ + https://www.linkedin.com/in/domenicovillani/
More information on STL Certification: http://stdleading.com/en/ + Standard Leading Certification Co., Ltd. is an independent, impartial and professional third-party certification organization approved by CNCA (Certification and Accreditation Administration of the People’s Republic of China) and CNAS, approval number: CNCA-R-2022-983.
More information on IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission): https://iec.ch/ + The IEC brings together close to ~170 countries, and about 30 000 experts cooperate on the global IEC platform to ensure that products work everywhere safely with each other.
The IEC is the world’s leading organization that prepares and publishes globally relevant International Standards for the whole energy chain, including all electrical, electronic and related technologies, devices and systems. The IEC also supports all forms of conformity assessment and administers four Conformity Assessment Systems that certify that components, equipment and systems used in homes, offices, healthcare facilities, public spaces, transportation, manufacturing, explosive environments and energy generation conform to them.
IEC work covers a vast range of technologies: power generation (including all renewable energy sources), transmission, distribution, Smart Grid, batteries, home appliances, office and medical equipment, all public and private transportation, semiconductors, fibre optics, nanotechnology, multimedia, information technology, and more. It also addresses safety, EMC, performance and the environment.
More information on Jo Cops (President, IEC): https://iec.ch/leadership + https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocops/
More information on CIGRE: https://www.cigre.org/ + Established in 1921 in Paris, France, CIGRE is a global community committed to the collaborative development and sharing of end to end power system expertise. The community features thousands of professionals from over 90 countries and 1250 member organisations, including some of the world’s leading experts. At its heart are CIGRE’s 61 in country National Committees offering diverse technical perspectives and expertise from every corner of the globe.
CIGRE operates the world’s foremost knowledge programme, spanning 16 domains of work encompassing all the core areas of the power system. Across these domains 250+ Working Groups draw and build on practical expertise to solve existing and future challenges facing the power system.
CIGRE’s knowledge programme includes an extensive range of local and international events, culminating every two years at the Paris Session in France – a unique thought leadership congress and the number one global power system event.
Over the last 100 years the work of CIGRE has contributed to many of the key technical cornerstones of the modern power system. CIGRE’s renowned publications, developed through the collaborative sharing of ‘real world experiences’, are in many cases the authoritative source of reference information.
All this means that when electricity industry professionals look for the unbiased, fact-based answers they need, they turn to CIGRE, the world’s preeminent source for power system expertise.
CIGRE is a French acronym, standing for Conseil International des Grands Réseaux Electriques; this translates as Council on Large Electric Systems.
More information on Konstantin Papailiou (President, CIGRE): https://www.cigre.org/GB/about/governing-bodies + https://www.linkedin.com/in/konstantin-o-papailiou-433518294/?trk=public_post_main-feed-card-text
EMR Additional Notes:
- Extra Low-Voltage (ELV):
- Voltage of 50V or less (AC RMS), or 120V or less (ripple-free DC).
- Low-Voltage (LV):
- The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) defines supply system low voltage as voltage in the range 50–1000 V AC or 120–1500 V DC.
- Medium-Voltage (MV):
- Medium-voltage circuit breakers rated between 1 and 35/72 kV.
- High-Voltage (HV):
- The International Electrotechnical Commission define high voltage as above 1000 V for alternating current, and at least 1500 V for direct current.
- Super High-Voltage or Extra High-Voltage (EHV):
- Is >300kV.
- Ultra High-Voltage (UHV):
- Is >1.000kV.
- Grid, Microgrids, DERs and DERM’s:
- The power grid is a network for delivering electricity to consumers. The power grid includes generator stations, transmission lines and towers, and individual consumer distribution lines.
- The grid constantly balances the supply and demand for the energy that powers everything from industry to household appliances.
- Electric grids perform three major functions: power generation, transmission, and distribution.
- A microgrid is a small-scale power grid that can operate independently or collaboratively with other small power grids. The practice of using microgrids is known as distributed, dispersed, decentralized, district or embedded energy production.
- Smart Grid is any electrical grid + IT at all levels . Micro Grid is a group of interconnected loads and DERs (Distributed energy resources) within a clearly defined electrical and geographical boundaries witch acts as a single controllable entity with respect to the main grid.
- Distributed energy resources (DERs) are small-scale electricity supply (typically in the range of 3 kW to 50 MW) or demand resources that are interconnected to the electric grid. They are power generation resources and are usually located close to load centers, and can be used individually or in aggregate to provide value to the grid.
- Common examples of DERs include rooftop solar PV units, natural gas turbines, microturbines, wind turbines, biomass generators, fuel cells, tri-generation units, battery storage, electric vehicles (EV) and EV chargers, and demand response applications.
- Distributed energy resources management systems (DERMS) are platforms which helps mostly distribution system operators (DSO) manage their grids that are mainly based on distributed energy resources (DER).
- DERMS are used by utilities and other energy companies to aggregate a large energy load for participation in the demand response market. DERMS can be defined in many ways, depending on the use case and underlying energy asset.