Costa Rica nears 100% renewable energy

The Government of Costa Rica expects 99% of the nation’s electricity to come from renewable resources in 2019.

That implies Costa Rica will have kept running on over 98% clean energy more than five back to back years, as per information from the National Center for Energy Control (CENCE).

So far in 2019, 98.84% of Costa Rica’s capacity has originated from inexhaustible assets, the administration says, “despite the dry conditions that have prevailed in the region.”

In 2019, Costa Rica has created 67.5% of its vitality from hydropower, 17% from wind, 13.5% from geothermal sources and 0.84% ​​from biomass and sun powered boards. The staying 1.16% relates to reinforcement plants, Casa Presidencial says.

The numbers do exclude the non-renewable energy source subordinate transportation area, which is in charge of 66% of hydrocarbon utilization and 54% of carbon dioxide emanations in Costa Rica.

Costa Rica’s decarbonization procedure incorporates an arrangement to present an advanced transportation framework in San José that will advance strolling and biking, and highlight completely electric trains by 2050.

In any case, the Costa Rican government says its spotless vitality age — which powers more than 1.5 million homes and 225,000 organizations — has spared the nation about $500 million in the course of recent years over depending on petroleum derivatives.

Costa Rica has likewise created more than $180 million in offers of surplus vitality to Central America’s Regional Electricity Market (MER), which has helped control Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.

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