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Spanish Clevergy has just lifted 3.2 million to expand its energy management model

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The relationship between marketers and households is changing: it is no longer going on invoices, it goes from apps that explain what your home consumes and what you can optimize. In that day -to -day landing stands out Clevergya Spanish startup founded in 2022 that has just closed 3.2 million euros To make your European leap. Its proposal allows companies to offer not only a personalized application with real -time monitoring, alerts and savings recommendations, but also a set of solutions to digitize their business. The promised result: customers who better understand their energy consumption and companies that modernize their offer without starting from scratch. Founded in Madrid in 2022 by Beltrán Aznar, Álvaro Pérez and Juan LópezClevergy has moved quickly in a sector where digitalization is already a demand. In just three years he has managed to arrive, according to the company, “hundreds of thousands” of Spanish homes through their agreements with marketers. Its role is clear: it acts under a B2B2C model, that is, it offers technology to companies so that it is the ones that put it in their end customers. This combination of speed and adoption has given visibility in a market in full transformation. Clevergy seeks to convert energy management into a daily experience Clevergy’s proposal for marketers goes beyond an app for its customers. The company has developed a portal that allows to centralize operations and support, in addition to identifying business opportunities and cutting costs. It also offers one API to integrate consumption data and generation from counters, solar panels or connected devices. To this are added white brand applications, adaptable to the identity of each company, and modules that can be inserted into existing platforms. For homes, all this deployment is concretized in functions designed to give more visibility about the energy they consume. Customers can monitor their real -time spending, receive notifications when inefficiencies are detected and adjust their consumption habits. The system also includes comparisons with other users, calculation of potential savings and remote control of connected equipment. In this way, marketers seek to add a tangible value to their offer and generate confidence in a market where the price is no longer the only decisive factor. Clevergy’s growth has been fast. In just three years he claims to have tripled its growth and, in just 18 months, has closed two rounds of financing: the first of 1.5 million euros in 2024 And the second, of 3.2 million, is the one that has just been announced in 2025. The latter is the one that marks a turning point, when arriving at a time when marketers intensify the search for digital services to improve their relationship with customers and reduce costs. For the company, it is a validation of its role in this transformation process. Clevergy has closed two rounds of financing: the first of 1.5 million euros in 2024 and the second, of 3.2 million The round of 3.2 million euros has been led by Racine2 (managed by Serena and Makesense) together with Axon Partners Group, with the participation of Satgana, Wayra (the CVC of Telefónica) and Angels, Juan Roig’s investment society. With these funds, Clevergy seeks to accelerate its international expansion and improve the capabilities of its platform. The declared objective of the company is to continue refining its technology and progressively take it to other countries of the continent. The challenge is now to check how far Clevergy can go outside of Spain. The company has shown traction in the national market, but the jump to Europe implies integrating with different regulations and compete in a stage with other technological and energy actors. It will be key to see how it manages to deploy its platform in new countries and if the marketers really transfer that proposal to the final customer. Its evolution will mark to what extent this digitalization model can be consolidated beyond the domestic market. Images | Clevergy In Xataka | Juan Roig believes that in the future no one will have cooking at home. Mercadona is conquering the market thanks to it In Xataka | A Basque startup of AI has just lifted 189 million euros with a great idea: compress the AI

In his career for the total domain of the solar panels, a rival has come out: the Spanish Perovskita

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The sun will continue to shine, but the way we take advantage of it is changing at vertigo speed. While China and other countries are focused on improving the efficiency of Perovskita solar panels, Spain has set the point of solving another great challenge: stability. And he does it with a clear message: say goodbye to the silicon. Jubilating the silicon. Until now, talk about solar energy It was talking about silicon. Today, that equation begins to break through the Perovskita. In Madrid, an Imdea Nanocencia team has achieved that a cell reaches 25.2% certified efficiency, almost matching The world record of 26.7%. With this, Spain enters the first line of the race for the solar future. Not only that, they have also manufactured a mini-modulus of 25 cm² that maintains an efficiency of 22.1% and extraordinary stability, something that historically has been the Achilles heel of this technology. “These cells already exceed the commercial silicon, which barely reaches 18% efficiency, and open the door to the next generation of solar panels,” explains Nazario Martín, principal researcher of the project. The jump is not only academic. In research, Published in Advanced Materialsthey explain that Perovskita promises to reduce costs, be flexible, light and recyclable, in front of the silicon, whose production process is expensive and controlled almost exclusively by China. But the essential here is not so much efficiency and durability. The cells developed with the new PTZ-FL material maintain 95% of their performance after 3,600 hours of tests in demanding conditions (ISOS-D-1 protocol). In other words, we do not talk about fragile laboratory prototypes, but of devices capable of resisting the passage of time under sun, humidity and heat. The fund of the project. The advance is based on the design of molecules called Spiro-Fenotiazines, which act as “hollow transporters”, an essential layer in the solar cell. The PTZ-FL compound prevents lithium-ion migration, which is usually one of the main causes of degradation. In the words of the researchers, it is about building a “compact interface” that protects the material and improves its efficiency. In practical terms, it means that Perovskita modules are not only more powerful, but also much more resistant. China takes the lead. As he advanced above, China has focused its efficiency efforts. A study by the Huazhong University and Technology achieved a 28.8% record With a tandem cell totally from Perovskita, without silicon. This type of advance, such as Spanish, confirm that Perovskita can not only compete with silicon, but to overcome it in scenarios where it never shone: facades, windows, offices or even portable devices. There are very specific challenges. Beyond laboratory records, the great challenge is to bring this technology to the market. Today, the European Union depends largely on China to manufacture solar panels, According to an Ember report. Projects such as IMDEA not only seek efficiency, but also reduce this strategic dependence. In addition, the most expensive component of a solar panel is no longer silicon or glass, but aluminum frames, which represent 14% of the total cost. A reminder that the transition to Perovskita will require innovations not only in laboratories, also in factories and supply chains. Forecasts The solar future is no longer written with silicon. Perovskita has gone from being a fragile promise to real candidate for the market. The question is not whether it will come, but how and from where. Spain, with the advancement of IMDEA nanocencia, wants part of that response to have European seal. Image | Freepik Xataka | India needs more crops and solar energy than any other country. So you are installing solar panels in height

The Spanish rice has come out in the most unexpected country in Europe: England

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Spain is one of the great rice producers in Europe. The annual production of this cereal is around 800,000 tonsa significant portion of 2.8 million tons produced in the European Union. Now a new country could be incorporated into the list of European producing countries (although it comes late to join the Union list).It is the United Kingdom. A crop making their way. The rice cultivation He makes his way in England. An experimental rice plantation is demonstrating the viability of the cultivation of this cereal in the relatively fresh and humid climate of the British islands. Nine varieties. The experiment It is being driven by the UKCEH (UK Center for Ecology and Hydrology) and for a marriage of local farmers, Craig and Sarah Taylor. The experimental rice cultivation occupies four plots of a land in the FENS region, in Cambridgeshire. In this region of the East English, marshes and peat areas predominate. The soil in this region is not only rich in nutrients and conducive to agriculture but also offers, thanks to peat, the possibility of creating floodplains such as those required by rice cultivation. The four plots occupied by this experimental crop have been sufficient to cultivate nine varieties of rice, including rice originating in Brazil, Italy or the Philippines, varieties used for plates such as risotto, Basmati rice or sushi. With the help of heat. Cultivating rice in the British climate does not seem like a great idea, but the results seem to indicate otherwise. It may have contributed the exceptionally warm summer that has affected the British islands. The future of rice cultivation on the islands could depend on the heat lived this year being a simple anomaly or fruit of a trend marked towards increasing temperatures. “We could never have contemplated that this grew here,” explained to the BBC Sarah Taylor, one of those responsible for this project. “Not in a million years,” Apostille Craig, her husband. Tying the carbon. The mob plays an important role in carbon regulation. This soil originates in the decomposition of organic matter and stores a large amount of carbon. The degradation of these soils as a result of agricultural use implies the emission to the atmosphere of huge amounts of carbon dioxide. The rice planting project He wants to avoid thisTying the carbon to the terrestrial peat of the English region. This implies that the project not only has the potential to help adapt to change in the weather, it is also a way to mitigate the emissions that cause it. New competition? Climate change involves numerous challenges and perhaps one of the greatest has to do with agriculture. Changes in temperature and rain patterns imply that the crops that once prospered in one place stop doing so. On the other hand, change also open the road to the introduction of new crops where they would have been inconceivable before. In a changing context, rice crops in Spain raise a double threat. On the one hand, The drought lived a few years ago It was a threat to endanger the supply of water in areas such as the Ebro delta. In case that were not enough, the rainy episodes we have seen in the last year have also brought New threats to cereal producing regions. In Xataka | The US launched a pulse to China with the tariffs and China has responded not buying soybeans. It is wreaking havoc Image | UKCEH

Ryanair has put Spanish province airports with their cuts with their cuts. Despite this, it will grow in 100,000 squares

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Ryanair will increase its seat offer in Spain by 0.5% during the 2025-2026 winter season, which is equivalent to about 100,000 additional places. So far, the airline continued with its strategy of Remove places at regional airports Spanish in response to the increase in AENA’s airport rates. This time, the movement has been the opposite, although it was expected, because the firm prefers to concentrate the fleet in the most profitable destinations. Cuts. Ryanair will reduce its capacity in northern cities and island regions, although The global balance is positive. In addition, there has been airplane repositioning: the two devices retired from Santiago de Compostela will move to Malaga and Alicante, remaining in Spanish territory. The company seeks that its airplanes fly more hours and generate greater return per passenger, something simpler in large tourist cities. This movement adds to The 800,000 squares already eliminated Before summer in airports such as Santiago, Vigo, Tenerife Norte, Santander, Zaragoza, Asturias and Vitoria, who in some cases have meant the dismissal of a hundred employees. Who wins and who loses. The Mediterranean will be the great beneficiary. Malaga, Alicante and Valencia will absorb the bulk of growth, with increases that could achieve Between 10% and 14% At Alicante airport, exceeding 10 million seats. The Costa Blanca Tourism Board of Tourism figure the increase in more than 4.3 million places from Alicante-Elche. This Thursday will start The presentation act of the winter operation with an event in Malaga that will be attended by Mayor Francisco de la Torre, where it is expected to know the increase in routes and frequencies from the Costa del Sol. Seville will maintain its stable offer. The great affected. On the opposite side, Santiago will suffer a collapse Of 80%, Vigo of 73%, Asturias of 16%, Santander of 38%and Zaragoza of 45%. The Canary Islands will lose more than 400,000 places, with the total closure of operations in Tenerife North and descents in Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. The Balearic Islands will also notice the withdrawal, with a 6% drop in the middle of the low season. Even Madrid and Barcelona, ​​the two great airports of the country, They will see their capacity fall by 3% and 5% respectively. The airline He has threatened In addition to reducing another million seats next summer if Aena does not reduce airport rates. The pulse with Aena continues. Eddie Wilson, CEO of Ryanair, justifies The redistribution of the fleet through airport rates ensuring that “our personnel costs, route rates, maintenance, sales or fuel are the same in any country. The only variable costs are handling and airport rates, and if they rise in Spain and go down another place, we will go there.” Michael O’Leary, executive president of the airline, will travel to Madrid in October to address with the government the lack of incentives to regional airports and the fine of 107 million euros imposed by consumption for the collection of hand suitcases, a sanction that the airline has resorted to considering it contrary to European regulations. The answer from Aena. Maurici Lucena, president of Aena, responded To Aena’s pressures ensuring that “he uses them because he freely wants to do it and because it is convenient. Contrary to what Ryanair’s public statements hint, Aena will never accept transforming the relationship of symbiosis into a vassalage relationship, as the airline intends, because the Spanish airport system would seriously harm.” Despite the cuts, there is growth. Despite the threats and the announced cuts, Ryanair has requested more holes between hours than last season, a “quantitative discrepancy” highlighted by Lucena himself. The airline It is still the first in Spain with 46.7 million passengers until August, far ahead of Vueling (33.2 million) and the Iberia group (29.6 million). Cover image | Wolfgang Weiser In Xataka | Granada fine from today with its new area of ​​low emissions: who can access, fines and exceptions

The genre Superventas, analyzed by its best Spanish authors

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The talk about Romantas and Comic-with He did not put the crowds early at six in the morning (although, like all, he filled in his room), but he did bring several tens of readers and readers who came to listen to the interesting reflections of a trio of outstanding authors of the genre. A good symbol of what the genre of the Romantasy: It does not occupy holders, it is not the convention center of conventions like this, but Sell ​​thousands and thousands of copies outside the media radar, captivating along the way more and more followers. In the Comic-with Malaga We had the opportunity to attend a talk with three of the most important authors of the genre in Spain: the very young Lucia Cerezo, author of the saga ‘Phoenix and Dragon’, and the most experienced parente and Selene Pascual, authors of about twenty works such as ‘paper petals’ or the series ‘Time Keeper’, almost all of fantasy but not all strictly all strictly. Together they raised a somewhat demystifying approach to the genre. Iria makes it clear when he appears: “We have been writing fantasy, fiction and romance and sometimes, why not? Mixing all those subgenres.” And he adds: “When we started publishing, we already wrote fantasy with his romance touches. When we were more girls and we were fans of ‘Memories of Idhun’, nobody described him as Romantasy, but clearly If ‘Idhun memories’ was published today, what would it be called? Romantasy. “ With this, they make it clear that the mixture in “more or less balanced” parts of fantasy and romance, as it was agreed to define Romantasy in the start of the talk, is a label that defines a style, but that has always existed. “The themes have not changed, but the way the themes are being appointed,” says Selene. But he also recognizes that tastes are transforming: “Yes, it is true that there has been a boom of a type of fantasy that puts romance in the center of the plot, now today it looks more than the romance carries the plot and that the romance eats the fantasy a bit.” I would be parente It tracks the origin of the term and awarded a completely industrial origin: “It is a label that is born from the publishers, from Bloomsbury, which is the one who published Sarah J. Maas.” Commercial maneuver or not, all agree that this new genre has managed to vibrate at a frequency that many readers were looking for. Iria and Selene summarize it with their own experience: “Our book that fits the most in the Romantas and is ‘Papelos de Papel’, a story in which the romance prevails about the rest, of a girl and a boy who live in different worlds and that communicate through a book. It was a bit of the allegory of what we have ever dreamed of when we take a book and think that we would like to be part of him.” They are also aware of the importance that networks have had in the dissemination of the term. Selene says that “following the pandemic, people were at home without knowing what to do, and decided to talk about books with people who liked the same genres. The ‘Romantasy’ began to be used, and it grew until they acquired their own category.” However, the networks have a darker side, and it puts the Spanish authors in the background. According to parente, “the books in English Many times they come with marketing already done. Because when you see a new book in stores, you say, ‘Buah, I have seen it and have recommended it 7000 times in Tiktok and I have left 7000 videos, I’m going to buy it.’ “ The problem of labels, they recognize, is that “fashions change from time to time”, and the categories can also be a trap: Selene states that it has noticed a certain tendency to “Tropification, that is, I have to add three certain tropes to my book or if it will not be sold. “The genres have always used clichés, but there are many who” seem now to be mandatory. If the girl does not put the dagger on the boy’s neck, it’s wrong. If it is not a enemy to loverswe are not interested “, and that can be more a restriction than a welcome novelty. But all are very clear about what the attractiveness of this genre is supervent. Lucia states that “many readers seek evasion, and Romantas and gives you this, a fantasy world, a love story that, if you want, allows you to read and evade. But also, if you prefer, you can make a deeper reading, you will usually have a political background, something that speaks to you of the real world and everything that is happening and that somehow gives you hope.” And there they give in the nail: “I think that Romantas and also has this basis of hope, that you can have a better world, and somehow people want that.” And Romantas and gives it, beyond labels. In Xataka | Brandon Sanderson’s fantastic emporium works thanks to 70 people who help him put order in his books

Spanish elites have been practicing the noble art of endogamy 3200 years

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There was a copistería in front of the Faculty of Sciences that had hung on the wall, one after another, all the ons of one of the wildest engineering in the entire Spanish university system. I used to look at them while waiting. And I know it may seem boring, but there was nothing more fascinating than seeing how the people of the cloister were changing, but the surnames did not. Yes, yes. It is an exaggeration, an easy stereotype. But it is also true. And not only in college: Endogamy is one of those recurrent phenomena of the social life of our country. A long history. As They explained a few years ago Professor Javier Barnes and economist Fernando Faces, “that in Spain the rules of the game for the contests and awards of contracts are based on norms of a century and a half ago, of 1870, it gives us an idea of ​​how much we need to renew ourselves.” It is not a bug, it is a feature. It is a well -known anthropological technology to reinforce the power of a group of people. And that is why not only affects The municipalities, Companies or the university: endogamy came to provoke The extinction of the Habsburg Dynasty Branch. What we did not know is that it was something so old. When was innovamy invented? We do not know, but we are close to discovering it. After analyzing 24 buried individuals In the Zaragoza necropolis of the Castellets II, an international team of specialists has found a possible response to all this. And it is that up to two thirds of the individuals were related to each other. But there were not only parents and children, there were kinships of fifth and sixth grade. That means that Mequinenza’s mound was used as a mausoleum of an extensive family, as a kind of central funeral node of a dense filiation structure. It is the first direct evidence of inbreeding practices at the end of the era of bronze in the peninsular. What does this mean? That the peninsular of that time were discovering the most basic version of Endogamy: leaders who consolidate their status marrying each other. “Such levels of consanguinity had not registered in previous periods of the Iberian Prehistory,” The researchers say. The big change. Metals have always been metals. “Prehistory is the period of the history of humanity from our origins to the appearance of the first bureaucratic states,” Archaeologist Rodrigo Villalobos explained. And what we are seeing in Mequinenza is how these states begin to take shape. This allows us to know things about Endogamy, of course. Nothing new in ethnographic terms, but something key that affects us today. Endogamy is still alive because it is an extremely effective method to ensure the stability of social structures. It has associated costs, but They are long -term costs. In the medium term, they are usually more than assumable. But beyond: the interesting thing is that, like supports the investigationendogamic practices are practical sensitive “Legal systems and administrative practices”. It is not an irreformable curse. This leads us to a deeper question: do we really want to change it? Image | Meressa Chartrand In Xataka | 8,000 years ago, 3,000 before the invention of the first toilet, we already had intestinal parasites

Ryanair has put the Spanish province airports in check. Fortunately for them, there is a thing called “capitalism”

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Spanish airports are living a tremendous snake in recent months, and the absolute protagonist is Ryanair. The Irish airline has been using smaller airports for months, such as negotiating weapon in battle against airport ratesthreatening to leave them lying if their conditions were not met. Threatened … and fulfilled, being Valladolid’s one of the most affected airports. But there Where Ryanair closedother companies have seen a chance. And, as the Minister of Transportation says: “To dead king, king on.” What’s happening. AENA is the public company that is responsible for the management of airports in Spain. A few months ago he announced that, as of March 2026, it would increase airport rates by 6.5%. This implies that the maximum entrance per traveler will go from 10.35 euros to 11.03 euros, a rise of 68 cents. The reaction Ryanair was … sound, so to speak. Through several very public profiles, including that of its controversial CEO, Michael O’LearyThe company described the increase as unjustified, stating that regional airports would be less competitive against other European destinations. In general, the defense of Ryanair is based on affirming that Aena acts as a monopoly when the benefits of travelers and regional connectivity are put. Affected. The manager justifies the climb to the need to face a Investment Plan of about 13,000 million euros with the aim of modernizing the network in the coming years before an expected increase in demand. All this led to the president of AENA and the Ministry of Transportation accused Ryanair of being blackmailing the country. Also accuses To the company to use that increase in rates as an excuse to stop operating in regional airports, moving to the “airports in which they can set higher prices in their tickets to earn more money”. In fact, a pulse can be allowed like this. Ryanair’s response? Trim a Million places Facing the Christmas campaign of this 2025 through the cessation of operations in those regional airports in which the airline was the main mode of connection with other airports. The most affectedin addition to Valladolid, Son Vigo or Santiago de Compostela, but also Tenerife Norte, Asturias, Santander, Zaragoza, Jerez or Vitoria. airport Capacity cuts for winter 2025 & 2026 Santiago Base closure (two less aircraft, 80% less capacity) sherry Closing Valladolid Closing Tenerife Norte Closing Vigo Closing Santander -38% Saragossa Closing Asturias -16% Vitoria -2% Canary Islands -10% Dead king, king. The truth is that Ryanair is one of the most powerful companies at European level, especially in these smaller airports, since its model is the one that allows connections between cities that other companies do not cover. However, his withdrawal of some Spanish airports is not something that worries one of the protagonists of this story: the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility. Óscar Puente defended A few days ago, Ryanair’s march would be compensated with the arrival of other companies. The minister argued that “no company will condition airport policy with threats, underlining That “to dead king, king placed”, and it seems that those new ‘kings’ are already appearing their heads. To attack. It was the bridge itself who announced that airlines as Vueling would “immediately” cover the routes abandoned by Ryanair for this winter, ensuring that he has worked in negotiations with both vs. with other companies to fill that void left by the Irish company. Vueling will reinforce its presence in Santiago and Tenerife Norte, but it is not the only company that has seen an opportunity in this situation. Iberia Express or Wizz Air They also work to cover part of the routes operated by Ryanair. Specifically, from Independent comment which turning will increase its capacity by 15% in Santiago (reaching 578,000 seats) and 11% in Tenerife Norte (900,000 seats). Wizz Air, meanwhile, will open 40 additional routes until March 2026. Another of those who I could enter the game It is volotea, an airline that is focused on connecting small and medium cities that has already collected the Guante of Ryanair’s abandonment of French airports. Because this struggle of Ryanair against rates are also having it in parallel in France. And the train? Of course, Ryanair has put the increase in rates in the center of the debate, but there is something that has been forged in recent years: the expansion of high speed. A few weeks ago we already commented that that of Santiago and Vigo, airports in which the Irish has closed operations, are two cities to which The arrival of high speed is especially affecting. In Asturias There are still complicationsbut new sections are planned that will allow the train to fight the plane soon. And in Zaragoza not only Renfe operates: Ouigo and Iro They joined not so much. Now, where the train is not an option is in the Canary Islands, where Ryanair will reduce 400,000 places in winter, canceling 36 connections. There will be companies such as Vueling, Iberia Express or Binter who will have to demonstrate whether they can operate without travelers missing Ryanair. This next winter will be the fire test. In the end, Ryanair has been able to blackmail Aena (and other European organizations) to some extent, since if he leaves his routes, due to competition, there are other companies that are looking forward to occupying their place. Images | Ryanair, Robot8a In Xataka | In its extreme obsession with hand luggage, Ryanair has created a new and explicit product: “Backpacks to travel with Ryanair”

The Spanish rail giant had planned to build a lightwail between Jerusalem and the West Bank. Now has a problem

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The Basque CAF It is found In the international view for its participation in the Jerusalem Railway Project, which connects Israeli settlements considered illegal by the United Nations. The pressure on the company has intensified after appearing cited in An official report of the UN on companies that benefit from the occupation. A dispute project. CAF has been part of a consortium with the Israeli Shapir since 2019 to build and expand the red and green lines of the Light Jerusalem Rail. The project, valued at 1.8 billion euros, includes 27 kilometers of new roads and 50 stations that connect settlements in the West Jerusalem. The Basque company would take more than 500 million euros for construction and equipment, in addition to its participation in management for 15 to 25 years. Why is it problematic. The UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, has included to CAF in its report “of the economy of occupation to the economy of the genocide”, presented before the Human Rights Council. According to the document, these infrastructure “contribute to the maintenance and consolidation of illegal settlements” and connect the colonies with Israel “while excluding and segregating the Palestinians.” The Human Rights Council itself declared the project illegal in 2016 and 2017. The pressure intensifies. Amnesty International has been asking CA for years to leave the project. “CAF cannot continue looking the other way and not meet international recommendations,” affirms Esteban Beltrán, director of the NGO in Spain. The organization also claims the Spanish government and the Basque Government, a shareholder of the company, to evaluate the CAF links with “the illegal behavior of Israel.” Others are retiring. The case It is not isolated. In 2024, the Catalan Comsa withdrew from the consortium that had won the construction of the blue line of the Jerusalem tram. The Basque Acerera Sidenor also announced that it will stop serving steel to Israeli companies. International funds such as the Norwegian sovereign have retired their participations from Shapir, a partner of CAF, and the manager Storeband excluded CAF from his portfolio for his participation in the project. CAF’s response. The company maintains in its sustainability reports that “no violation of human rights has been detected” derived from their participation and describes the territories as “object of political controversy.” However, for international organizations, CAF is obviating the resolutions of the UN Security Council, the European Union and the International Court of Justice on the illegality of settlements. Between the lines. The project places CAF at a crossroads between commercial interests and international pressure. Your shareholders include to the Basque Government, Kutxabank, the Matrix of the Mayoral Textile and the workers themselves with 25% of the shares. Meanwhile, the geopolitical context has hardened after the attacks of October 7 and the Israeli response in Gaza, increasing international scrutiny over any company linked to occupied territories. Cover image | Alexander Berezhnoy In Xataka | Ryanair’s escape in small airports has taken Andalusia to a radical idea: his own independent “aena”

A Spanish company wants to convert the chitamiedos into biker allies. Promises to be as simple as effective

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We are not going to discover anything if we say that chitamiedos are one of the great dangers for motorists and cyclists. For years solutions of all kinds have been sought. Among them have been proposed and installed Save them With double protection, Some even padded To absorb the impact and above all, eliminate the blade effect from the supports. There are also tubular options that follow that same logic of double and lower protection but avoiding the small pillars that can curtail members. Now, a Spaniard has presented a new addition that does not imply a new design of the cloakrooms. In this case, the objective is that emergency services can act faster and, therefore, some times that can be crucial when an accident is suffered. A connected alternative The system is called Plugsmart Pro And it is devised by the University University of Valencia (UPV) in collaboration with the Valenciana Metalese company is based on a similar idea. In this case they use artificial intelligence, environment monitoring systems and bidirectional signaling to alert drivers in real time. The system Analyze Constantly what happens around them and changes their lighting to warn drivers, bikers or cyclists that they approach a dangerous place, in complicated conditions or that there is some obstacle along the way. To do this, use some lights connected to each other that are installed on the wore. These emit a certain halo of light but when the weather conditions are complicated, the light takes strength. It is the simplest function because the truly interesting is in the monitoring of the environment. If the guardraíl detects that another vehicle is approaching, the flashes become more visible to alert who is on the other side of the curve. Also if, for example, there is a damaged vehicle, an injured person or an animal is crossing the road. If the system detects a dangerous object, the intensity of light increases. The invention has won the Ponle Brake Prize for Innovation in Road Safety in 2024 and this year the National Award Award for Conservation Safety. The companions of Motorpasion motorcyclethat from the DGT have already shown their support for the system. And it is that when the last great advantage of the system is that it can notify emergency services in case of accident. The latter is one of the incentives that the DGT has wielded to convince us that the V-16 lights that will be mandatory as of January are better than the classic triangles. That is, the system alerts drivers, cyclists and motorists that They approach a danger and its light adapts to signal its risk. But, in addition, it comes into contact with the authorities in case of detecting a blow with the intention that the response time from the accident warning to its performance is as much as possible. Photo | Miraxh Tereziu and Metals In Xataka | Spain has a problem with old motorcycles: they neither pass the ITV nor are they a maintenance day

There are only two places in Spain from which you can see the eclipse of the 21st: the Spanish Antarctic Bases

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Eclipses have given much to talk about in recent months. In April of last year millions of Americans saw an eclipse whose total concealment path furrowed from south to north the country. Something closer, in March of this year we had a small snack of the row of eclipses that we can see in the coming years. But some eclipses go unnoticed. A new eclipse. On Sunday there will be a new partial eclipse of Sol. The eclipse will begin approximately At 17:30 UTC7:30 p.m. Spanish peninsular (CEST); and will last almost until 21:54 UTC, or 23:54 Cest. Like other solar eclipses, this occurs on dates close to a lunar, in this case The last day 7 September. The beginning of the eclipse will be given on Pacific waters, near the Samoa archipelago. While being a partial eclipse there will not be a moment of total concealment, it will be at 19:42 UTC (21:42 CEST) when I know the moment of maximum concealment. According to Explain the National Geographic Institute (IGN), the maximum magnitude of the eclipse will be 0.86, but the inhabited settlements can only see the sun disappear in Something more than 72% of its surface. As Ign explains, after 264 minutes of eclipse, the sun will shine fully, being the waters of the ocean, near the Antarctic Peninsula the last to see the solar concealment. The eclipse of the antipodes. Sunday’s eclipse will be almost a tracing that was seen on March 29, only will run through the antipodesthe opposite side of the globe. The partial eclipse will be visible in the islands of New Zealand and other archipelagos of the southern Pacific. Almost “refile” can also be seen on the west coast of Australia, including Sydney and on the island of Tasmania. A very small fraction of humanity will be the one that this eclipse can see. In addition to those that inhabit the mentioned areas, in Antarctica the eclipse may be seen by those residing in some bases, including the Spanish located in the Southern Shetland Islands. The areas where the eclipse will be seen are best in the south of New Zealand and in some areas of the Antarctica continent, specifically in the region known as Earth of Oates, as well as in some small archipelagos located in the region. Waiting for a turn. Meanwhile we are waiting for the three eclipses, two plots and one annular, visible in Spain and part of Europe Between 2026 and 2028. The first of these eclipses will be the August 12 of 2026 and will be a total eclipse. The second will happen on August 2, 2027 and will also be total. The last will be annulled and will arrive on January 26, 2028. Meanwhile the world will see other eclipses. The following, for example, will arrive February 17 of 2026. It will be annulled but it can also be seen only from the southern hemisphere, with its annular phase only visible from Antarctica. February 7, 2027 an eclipse, also cancel, It will travel part of South America and can be seen partially from much of Africa and southern Spain. In Xataka | Spain is very excited about the three eclipses that will arrive between 2026 and 2028. The government is worried Image | NASA/AUREY GEMIGNANI / SNOWSWAN

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