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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – Rooftop photovoltaic panels combined with power storage (batteries) will be subsidized by to 60% in an upcoming program that has been announced by the government, the secretary general for energy at the environment and energy ministry, Alexandra Sdoukou, said at the Renewable and Storage Forum on Thursday.
The subsidies are for units of up to 10 KW, with the program guide to be unveiled for a period of public consultation within the next two weeks.
The government is also working on two more program to support the installation of photovoltaics, one targeting self-generation by businesses and one to promote energy communities in municipalities to support vulnerable consumers, Sdoukou said.
She also outlined the government’s priorities as regards energy for the next eight months, which include, among others:
– New energy planning with more ambitious targets for 2030, raising the share of renewables to 80% in electric power production, 50% in cooling/heating and 30% in transport.
– Incorporating directives for consumers and renewables
– Completing an IT system for renewables that will digitize the licensing procedure
– Holding one more tender for renewables by the end of the year
– Promoting energy storage (1.6 GW by the end of 2025)
– Tenders for hybrid renewable systems for non-connected islands in 2023
– Offshore wind parks, with the first opening by 2030.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S.
LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.