Company profile

Our business
Established in 1927, KEMA is an independent knowledge leader and a global provider of high-quality services to the energy value chain, specializing in business & technical consultancy, operational support, measurements & inspection, and testing & certification. KEMA provides impartial advice and support to the producers, suppliers and end users of electricity, gas and heat, as well as to governmental bodies. We also test and certify transmission, distribution, and other energy-related equipment for a wide range of clients.

Innovation
Technical innovation lies at the heart of much of what we do. Our team of more than 1,600 professionals with offices and representatives in more than twenty countries around the world, is dedicated to the provision of customized solutions. This encompasses everything from the origination of innovative, yet practical, answers to the energy-related problems of the future, to the development and implementation of cutting-edge quality assurance services for electrical and other high-risk equipment and processes. For more than eighty years, quality, reliability and expertise have been our core values.

Challenge
Those three core values are of fundamental significance due to the complexity of the settings in which we operate. The international energy world must soon face its greatest challenge: realizing a sustainable balance between economic interests, securing an affordable energy supply and addressing growing concerns about our environment and climate. This challenge has to be faced against a background of ever-increasing energy demand.

Expertise
Expertise in the fields of energy-related strategic and policy consultancy combines uniquely with comprehensive technical and technological know-how to distinguish KEMA from other service providers. Around the globe, KEMA personnel serve on leading advisory bodies, standardization committees and other organizations concerned with energy and testing & certification. In this way too, we play a key role in assuring the availability, reliability, sustainability and profitability of energy and energy-related products and processes throughout the world.

Added value
Our mission is to act as an independent, leading authority that delivers added value for its clients by providing of risk, performance and quality management services linked to the production and use of electricity, gas and heat. To this end, we investigate and advise on energy-related issues. We offer operational support to energy companies and bulk energy consumers. We inspect and assess the condition of infrastructural assets. In addition, we operate our own, state-of-the-art testing facilities all over the world, to which key global players – energy-related companies and manufacturers of transmission, distribution, and other energy-related equipment – bring their products for testing and certification every year.