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Costa Rica adds 165 MW of geothermal to the pipeline
September 1, 2016
Another 165 MW of geothermal energy is in the pipeline for Costa Rica. An expansion of the Las Pailas plant is expected to generate between 35 and 55 MW starting in 2018. The Central American country leads in Latin America when it comes to the utilization of geothermal energy; a total of 207 MW of […]
Costa Rica adds hydroelectric dam to clean energy grid
June 17, 2016
After six years of construction, Costa Rica’s USD 1.4 billion Reventazon Hydroelectric Project is almost fully online. Three of the facility’s four turbines are functioning, each pumping out 73 MW of electricity, and the fourth will join them in August. At full capacity the facility creates enough energy to supply 525,000 families with power. The […]
Latin America eyes volcanoes to fire up clean development
May 6, 2016
Mexico and Costa Rica plan to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels via geothermal and hydropower, part of an effort to meet the goal adopted by governments in the new Paris climate change agreement to keep global temperature rise “well below” 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times. In 2015, 73 percent of Costa Rica’s energy […]
Cuba and the US to collaborate on renewable energy
March 21, 2016
On the table for discussion during President Obama’s visit to Cuba this week was Cuba’s antiquated grid. Cuba is one of few remaining countries to burn crude oil to produce its electricity. A nation of juxtapositions, over the past decade the Cuban government implemented initiatives to replace light-bulbs, inefficient appliances and install solar panels. […]
Sun Fund Americas expands operations from Costa Rica to Jamaica
February 27, 2016
Sun Fund Americas, a Costa Rican renewable energy development company, will expand its operations to Jamaica this year. The company signed a 20MW solar PPA. Sun Fund works primarily on utility-scale solar projects and executes them in conjunction with Serenfushion Americas, a US-based hospitality development company. Read more here.
Gamesa to build four wind farms in Costa Rica
December 29, 2015
Gamesa and Iberdrola Ingenieria have signed a contract with Globeleq Mesoamerica Energy to build 80 MW of wind power in Costa Rica. The project will be broken up into four 20 MW wind farms. Gamesa will manufacture wind turbines and deliver them during Q2 of 2016. Iberdrola will manage the engineering, procurement and construction of […]
Costa Rica boasts 99% renewable energy in 2015
December 23, 2015
This year, Costa Rica set an energy record. The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) said in a statement that it achieved “99 per cent renewable electricity generation” and managed to power its grid on 100 percent renewable sources for 285 days. Hydropower is the dominant source of electricity generation in the small Central American country, […]
IDB to help Costa Rica boost renewables and grid capacity
December 1, 2015
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has extended a USD 500 million credit line to Costa Rica to increase its renewable energy capacity and to expand its transmission and distribution networks. Although Costa Rica sourced 98.8% of its energy thus far in 2015 from renewable sources, energy demands will increase significantly in the future. According to […]
Costa Rica inaugurates 50-MW hydroelectric plant
November 26, 2015
A new 50-MW hydroelectric plant in Costa Rica will reprocess water discharged from two existing hydropower plants. According to Salvador Gabarro of Gas Natural Fenosa, the company that won the bid to from the ICE to develop the project in 2008, “This power plant represents the efforts of our energy group to bring continuity to […]