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April 7th, 2010
The second leg tie between Barcelona and Arsenal in the quarter-finals of the Champions League was seen by over eight million viewers on TVE 1 last night, reaching a 46.3% share of the total TV audience. It is estimated that over 17 million people
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April 6th, 2010
The Government has announced that it will subsidise up to 20% of the cost of an electric car, up to a maximum of 6,000 euros, which will be available to private buyers or private fleets, representing 240 million euros in direct grants and part of a total of 590 million ...
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April 5th, 2010
The electric supplier Endesa will soon begin installing the first of 150,000 new electric meters in Spain, which allow reading and remote operation of home energy systems. The first batch will be located in the capitals of the autonomous communities where Endesa operates. The project director of Endesa, Rocio Millán, said ...
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March 27th, 2010
Don't forget that tonight (or more specifically at 2am early Sunday morning) the clocks go forward in all countries within the European Union, including Spain. So, that's one hour 'less' in bed! According to estimates by the Institute
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March 23rd, 2010
A short film titled 'Wash, Rinse and Spin’ has won the BBC World's MyWorld video competition. The video consists of a predominantly fixed angle video showing a washing machine spinning and casting reflections on an unemployed person, while concerns over his unemployment in Spain are displayed on screen.
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March 15th, 2010
The Generalitat (the regional government of Catalonia) said in a statement today that the blackout, that left about 100,000 people in the area of the Costa Brava without electricity until early this morning, was caused by the failure of a power line yesterday afternoon. Sources have indicated that the power
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March 8th, 2010
The Valencian researcher Jorge Blasco has become the first person from Spain to be nominated for the annual 'European Inventor Award'. A joint venture by the European Commission and the European Patent Office (EPO) , the awards are now in their fourth year and will be presented in Madrid on ...
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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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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 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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