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50-Cent Tax to Cover "free electricity"

According to the newspaper "To Vima," the Ministry of the Environment is seeking options in order to ensure that vulnerable households will retain their electricity supply. The Minister Yiannis Maniatis proposed  the introduction of a 50-cent levy on all electricity bills  in...

The Greek “Pirates” of Electricity Power

“Pirates of the electricity” is the title of the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, referring to activists that take it upon themselves to reconnect the electricity supply for socially weak Greek citizens, that find it hard to make ends meet. As the...

Cypriot Scientist Produces Electricity from Urine

The Cypriot Professor of Bristol Robotics Laboratory, Ioannis Ieropoulos, who is popular within the British community for his radical studies, presented a device that produces electricity using human urine as a fuel. The Cypriot scientist explained to the newspaper Fileleftheros...

Greece Electricity Rates to Soar Up to 40%

The demand by Greece's creditors for electricity rates to reflect the full cost of production will bring about fresh rate hikes by June 2013, the newspaper Kathimerini reported. As part of a broader deal reached with the Troika of...