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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-06-08Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>CONTENTS
[01] PPC to begin offering 15 pct discount to consistent customers from July 1Public Power Corporation will launch a 15 pct discount programme to all consistent customers from July 1, Manolis Panagiotakis, chairman and chief executive in PPC said on Wednesday, while he announced new business activities in Albania and a general shareholders' meeting in June 30 to launch procedures to sell ADMIE, the Independent Power Transmission Operator, as agreed with the country's creditors.Panagiotakis said the 15 pct discount will be offered to 5.0 million consumers who pay their bills on time, while another 2.1 million consumers with overdue debt could be included after settling their debts. Overdue debt from large enterprises amounted to 380 million euros, another 260 million euros were debt by state agencies and 1.85 billion euros from small- and medium-enterprises and households, totaling around 2.5 billion euros. Around 1.3 million consumers had debt up to 500 euros (totaling 150 million), another 280,000 had debt of 500-1,000 euros (another 150 million), while 180,000 consumers have settled their debt totaling 575 million euros. Panagiotakis said PPC will make everything possible to ensure that a compensation for ADMIE would be fair and will make specific proposals to avoid any financial loss. "We face unprecedented and difficult conditions with serious management problems," Panagiotakis said, adding that PPC would not consider selling power production units. In Albania, PPC will set up a subsidiary company to begin activities in hydro-electric power. [02] Thessaloniki architecture students build shelters out of discarded refugee life-jacketsIn a project that seeks to recycle and reuse a material that is both environmentally but also emotionally "toxic", architecture students at Thessaloniki university took the brightly-coloured life-jackets discarded by refugees and migrants landing on the Greek islands and used them to build shelters from the rain.Huddled under one of their shelters, in the grounds at the bank of the university's Polytechnic School, the students and the head of the architecture school Prof. Nikos Kalogirou, explained the thinking behind it. "These are toxic wastes that form mounds on the Greek islands but also have a heavy emotional burden so the aim was to sensitise public opinion about the refugee problem and make use of these unusual materials," he said. The project was carried out as part of a life-long-learning programme on "Sustainable Architectural Applications" organised by Thessaloniki University's architectural school and the Environmental Architectural Design Postgraduate Department. It was designed and built by students in three days, while the material was collected and donated by the Lesvos municipality. According to Kalogirou, if the idea attracts interest, the experimental architectural construction using recycled life-jackets can be a basis for the construction of more permanent shelters. Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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