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December 22nd, 2009
Demand for electricity fell by 4.6% in 2009 and was the first recorded annual rate drop since such monitoring began, said sources for electricity distributor Red Electrica (REE). According to REE, this decrease is the result of drops recorded in every month of the year - in the first four months ...
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December 23rd, 2009
Tomorrow a new suite of property laws from the Spanish Ministry of Housing comes into force, the law is being nicknamed the 'eviction express', and will improve the "legal certainty" of owners of rental property "without prejudicing the rights of tenants". The new law aims to promote a broader rental, and ...
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December 23rd, 2009
The electricity tariff set by the government and currently applied to 22.7 million homes and small businesses will rise from the 1st of January by 2.64%, as reported today by the Deputy Prime Minister, Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega. In a statement, the Ministry of Industry has suggested that the ...
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December 31st, 2009
After the recent electricity, transport and postage price rises, from tomorrow the price of a gas cylinder in Spain will increase by 3.4% to 11,05 euros, compared with 10,69 euros today. A 12.5 kg cylinder will therefore increase by 36 cents, which will affect between
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January 4th, 2010
As well as the recently reported rises in the rates of essential basic services such as electricity, gas and public transport, general taxes have also risen in the new year. The government has adopted higher taxes in efforts to address the drop in revenues caused
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January 16th, 2010
The Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has assured a group of European industrialists that one of the greatest aims of Spain's EU presidency, in the field of industry, will be the launch of a joint strategy for development of electric vehicles.
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February 9th, 2010
A total of six people died yesterday evening in a fire that occurred in the residential care home 'Aurora', situated in Calle Marques de Nervión, Seville. Seven other elderly people still remain in hospital according to a press release by
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February 11th, 2010
Renault Spain’s president, Jean-Pierre Laurent, has said that their vehicle factories in Valladolid are to become the group’s European centre for electric car production. In a recent newspaper interview, Laurent stated that
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February 18th, 2010
An incident this morning at a power plant in Las Caletillas, within the municipality of Candelaria, Tenerife, has left the entire island without electricity. The problem occurred at 12:08pm today, when a short circuit is thought to have triggered the blackout which
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February 18th, 2010
Constant supply of electricity is something we take for granted and, while everyone is used to the main fuse tripping in their homes or the occasional blackout that lasts a few seconds or at worst minutes, when we lose power for a long period of time, and on a larger
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