SGS Industrial Services - SGS Statutory Services Belgium Accredited as Authorized Inspection Organization (AIO)

The Certification of Belgian Offshore Installations by SGS Statutory Services BelgiumStore this angel in big sizeIn October 2009, SGS Statutory Services Belgium was accepted as Authorized Inspection Organization (AIO) for the acceptance of Belgian adopted installations for the assembly of electricity from renewable energy.

Belgium is at the beginning of installing adopted wind farms and is a allotment of the aboriginal European Union (EU) affiliate states to accomplish ample adopted wind farms in the North Sea.

Since 2003, SGS Statutory Services Belgium (SGS SSB) has been an Authorized Inspection Body in the Walloons and Flemish markets for onshore installations. With the accretion development of adopted wind farms in the Belgian North Sea, SGS SSB absitively to become aswell an accustomed analysis anatomy for adopted wind farms.

On October 16, 2009, SGS SSB was assuredly accepted as Authorized Inspection Organization (AIO) by the Belgian Federal Minister of Energy, for the acceptance of Belgian adopted installations for the assembly of electricity from renewable activity sources. The accreditation appropriate accelerated training of SGS inspectors and casual a abstruse analysis performed by the Belgian Accreditation Body (BELAC).

SGS SSB is appreciative to be now in a position to audit and accredit adopted installations. After acceptance that the installations accommodated all abstruse requirements, SGS SSB provides a affidavit which indicates how abundant electricity is generated by the use of Renewable Energy Sources (RES). This affidavit is appropriate by the wind acreage abettor to access blooming certificates from the Regulation Commission for Electricity and Gas.

The blooming certificates were afresh implemented by the European Union as an allurement arrangement in adjustment to abutment the abridgement of greenhouse gases. A blooming affidavit is a tradable article and signifies that assertive electricity is generated application renewable activity sources. Several countries, including Belgium, use blooming certificates as a agency to drive the abutment of blooming electricity bearing afterpiece to a bazaar abridgement instead of authoritative investment support.

SGS Wind Energy Services

SGS Wind Energy Services provides verification, inspection, testing and acceptance common for onshore and adopted wind acreage projects, in adjustment to advance activity activity and to enhance the above of wind farms. The casework offered by SGS beset the absolute activity lifecycle of wind turbines alignment from Project Feasibility Assessments and Wind Farm Project Certification, to Risk Management, Review of Maintenance Management Programs and Condition Monitoring. Recognized as the all-around archetype for above and integrity, the backbone of SGS comes from its accomplished agents who accept the requisite abstruse ability in wind activity technology.

The SGS Group is the all-around baton and innovator in inspection, verification, testing and acceptance services. Founded in 1878, SGS is accustomed as the all-around archetype in above and integrity. With added than 56,000 employees, SGS operates a arrangement of over 1,000 offices and laboratories about the world.

SGS Industrial Services
SGS Statutory Services Belgium

Guy Franssens
Marketing & Sales Manager

Riverside Business Park
Boulevard International/Internationalelaan, 55/D
B-1070 Bruxelles/Brussel - Belgium

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