Round Table Energy 'Vibrant Gujarat'

The actual focus in the Netherlands lies on establishing cooperation with India on the ares of Wind-, Solar-, Bio energy and Smart Grids resulting from the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the India Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs.

24-26 September an incoming mission from the Indian State of Gujarat visited the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague. Mr. Peet de Bruijn of Dutch Waste Management joined the round table meeting on energy with the energy participants to this mission (CEO level) because DWM is involved in the EU-Indo Biobased Project SAHYOG.

Because the participants were very interested in cooperation our questionnaire has been forwarded after the meeting. The focus in the first stage is to collect relevant urban, energy and waste data from the city of Ahmadabat (about 6 million inhabitants). After a quick scan we can work on to develop innovative business cases on implementing Waste Collection, Sanitate landfills and developing Bio refinery.

Power Engineering, energy conservation and environmental control techniques

Our youngest partner is De Blaay - Van den Bogaard Consulting Engineers (De Blaay) and they are a complementary partner of Steinnero Holding. 

This firm is a relatively small, but very flexible organization  operating primarily in the field of mechanical and electrical engineering providing consulting services. Mainly, due to the increasing interest of private Dutch enterprises abroad this firm became actively involved in the fields of power engineering, energy conservation and environmental control techniques.

This work basically involves the following sectors of engineering:

• -  Generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy
• -  Energy assessment studies
• -  Combined heat and power supply
• -  Energy saving and environmental control
• -  Water supply and Sewerage Systems
• -  Biomass and gasification.

In the Netherlands this firm has a staff of about 25 consulting engineers. Furthermore, the firm has contract agreements with a number of specialized senior advisors, covering almost all specific aspects of energy and environment. This gives the company the capability to present the highest possible specialist input, where and whenever the project so requires.

By pursuing this policy a maximum of "historical" know-how and experience is assured.

In this way De Blaay - Van den Bogaard Consulting Engineers can provide just the right man or team at the right time.

They are of the opinion that it is important to strengthen relations between companies in the various countries and subcontinents. The international financing organisations, such as the World Bank, EC, Asian Development Bank etc., in general pursue the policy to award contracts to companies that perform services in a joint venture with local enterprises. The Ministry of developmental cooperation in the Netherlands usually follows the same procedure. To assure efficient short listing for a project or study the company has been registered with the various financing organizations.

De Blaay - Van den Bogaard Raadgevende Ingenieurs B.V. is an independently operating consulting engineers company, and does not combine the functions of consultants with those of contractors/equipment suppliers, and is not associated with, affiliated to, or owned by a contractor.