Rural Women’s Day at ULL: Science and Territory
Today, in the Aula Magna of the Physics and Mathematics sections at the University of La Laguna, the subject is the countryside. The conference motto is “Sembrando Futuro: Mujer, Ciencia y Territorio”. You can attend in person or follow online, with registration through the link the university has published. It is organised by the Cátedra […]
The Canarian desalination lab DESAL+, led by the ITC, wins Water Europe’s 2026 award
On Tuesday 13 October, in Dublin, two people walked on stage to collect an award about an island 2,000 kilometres away. Jafeth Alonso, the Canarian government’s director general of Universities and Research, and Baltasar Peñate, head of the Water Department at the Canary Islands Technological Institute (ITC) and DESAL+ coordinator, received the Water-Oriented Living Lab […]
Canary Islands housing: government asks Brussels and Madrid for power to curb purchases by non-resident foreigners
Start with what hasn’t happened: no law currently stops or limits anyone from buying a home in the Canary Islands. What did happen, on 13 October, is that the Canarian government laid out in Parliament two separate requests to be able to do so in future. If you are weighing a purchase, or have one […]
The Canaries are wasting more than 15% of their clean power because there’s nowhere to store it
More than 15% of the renewable energy produced in the Canary Islands never makes it into the electricity system. It isn’t a shortage of turbines or panels. At certain hours more power arrives than the grid can take, and there is nowhere to set it aside. Energy minister Mariano Hernández Zapata said so in Parliament […]