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DNV – towards a sustainable energy future

Business strength in the energy industry has many dimensions. It’s how you identify opportunities. It’s how you balance risk and returns. It’s how you manage these risks in the face of growing complexity. It’s how you push technology boundaries safely and cost-efficiently. It’s how you step up to increasing environmental requirements and expectations. It’s how you operate in a truly global arena.

DNV provides world-class expertise in technology, operations, management and risk. But more importantly: we combine our know-how into a professional service concept designed to safely improve the performance of your business. So you can go strong on all dimensions.

Good environmental performance is increasingly viewed as a business imperative. This trend is evident across the energy sector. It is reflected in efforts to reduce the environmental impact of traditional oil and gas related activities. It spurs the development of new and cleaner sources of energy. DNV is helping companies contribute to a cleaner environment through a range of services, from business case development and assessment of environmental impact to certification of detailed design and clean development mechanisms.

The complexity of challenges associated with energy and climate change involves a variety of uncertainties and risks; ranging from societal, to commercial and technical issues. Understanding and managing risk is a pre-requisite for being able to make decisions and the decision basis and risk picture need to be transparent and well understood by all stakeholders.

DNV will continue to work towards common acceptance criteria and qualification methods –aiming at clarifying the decision basis and shortening the time span from policy making to industry implementation. Our standards for wind turbine blades, offshore wind structures and marine energy convertors are widely used in the industry.

Wind power is gaining momentum in the quest for renewable sources of energy. More and more wind parks are now situated offshore, where the winds blow harder and the turbines represent less of an issue in terms of visual interference with the surrounding landscape. The planning and execution of offshore wind farm projects involve a number of particular technological and process-related challenges. DNV’s services within project risk management, certification and technology qualification provides confidence and trust throughout the lifetime of wind power plants.

DNV is also a leading independent greenhouse gas verifier being the first company to be accredited by the UN for the verification of all major CDM scopes and holds the leading role in terms of global presence, verification and validation of projects.

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