Dear Reader, Environmentalists predict that the future will bring increasing heatwaves with dryness and risk of wildfires during parts of the year in some regions, and also extreme rainfall with flooding in some regions. This is creating difficult planning dilemmas, not least for choice of systems for generation of renewable electrical energy. Water and electrical energy are largely related, including for cooling nuclear power plants, and clearly for running hy-dro power plants which mostly depend on the water level in big reservoirs. However, in countries with rivers and streams running, smaller local option described in the last article below may offer a valuable supplementary solution.
The USA’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has now announced that also import of certain new advanced robotics devices and power inverters will be restricted. This represents another step in the Commission’s ongoing implementation of the Secure & Trusted Communications Networks Act and related national security initiatives.
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America and borders every country on that continent except Chile and Ecuador. It is also the world's 5th largest country by area and the 7th largest by population, having over 220 million people with Portuguese as the official language.
New Australian requirements in effect for mobile telecom equipment
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is the country’s federal regulator for communications and broadcasting etc, while the Communications Alliance, (now the Australian Telecommunication Alliance, ATA) represent Australia’s telecommunications industry, and formally recognized under the Telecommunications Act 1997 for developing relevant industry codes and standards.
First laboratory with Korean accreditation in Indonesia
The company Nemko Indonesia Assurance, in short PT NIA, (where “PT” corresponds in English to “Ltd”, i.e. a limited liability company) was on 6 August accredited by KOLAS (Korea Laboratory Accreditation Scheme) as a testing laboratory in the field of Electro-magnetic Compatibility (EMC). With this, Nemko is the first testing and certification organization to receive KOLAS accreditation in Indonesia and the only KOLAS-accredited laboratory currently operating outside Korea.
As a renewable energy source, hydropower plays an important role in the energy transition to reduce global emissions. In mountainous European countries like Switzerland, Austria and Norway, hydro provides 60-90 % of domestic electricity generation.
3 Sept. 2026: Nemko Taiwan Webinar: The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) - Latest Regulatory Updates and Compliance Requirements for Networking and Communication Products For information and registration, please click here.
27-28 Oct. 2026: SPCE 2026 IECEE Product Compliance Symposium in Portland, Oregon, USA
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24 Nov. 2026:
Nemko Live Info Session at SPS in Nuremberg
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16 Sept. 2026: Nemko Webinar: Cyber Resilience Act updates and the Vulnerability Reporting Obligations – what does it entail?
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4 Nov. 2026:
Nemko Italy Annual Customer Seminar (in Italian) in Milano, Italy
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24-26 Nov. 2026:
SPS Expo: SPS - Smart Production Solutions in Nuremberg, Germany
23 Sept. 2026: The annual Global Regulatory Conference in Carlsbad, California, USA
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5 Nov. 2026: Nemko Italy Seminar: From AI Regulation to Practical Implementation
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IEC Academy courses and webinars For information and registration, please clickhere.
GSO courses in the Arabic Gulf Region
Information about themes, places and times may be seen here.
Receive invitations to Nemko webinars on current compliance matters The webinars will be conducted in English, and one will be able to access the recordings afterwards, for own use and sharing with others please register here.
Hopefully, you are finding these topics to be of interest.
