98.53% of the electricity produced in Costa Rica since 2014 is renewable – Diario Digital Our Country

San Jose, July 11 (ElPaís.cr) .- Costa Rica generated 98.53% of its electricity from five renewable sources – water, geothermal, wind, biombad and solar – over the last four years , according to the National Energy Control Center (CENCE) of the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE).

Between June 1, 2014 and June 30, 2018, the National Electric System (SEN) produced 44,300.53 gigawatt hours. Of these, 98.53% – 43,647.72 gigawatt hours – come from factories that use the renewable resources of the national matrix (see tables).

As of 2016, clean production has been enhanced by the entry into operation of the Reventazón hydroelectric plant, whose function – with its regulating reservoir – is to contribute to maintain balance between the supply and demand of electricity of the country, in addition to avoiding the consumption of hydrocarbons

. 14 plants were added: seven wind turbines, six hydroelectric and one solar, and 1,197 days of 100% renewable production were accumulated. For the first quarter of 2019, ICE will integrate the Las Pailas II geothermal plant – 55 megawatts of installed capacity – which will be the most modern of its kind in the isthmus.

In 2018, the clean electricity reaches 97, 30%, so it should remain at the average of the last four years. In March of this year, Costa Rica achieved the largest wind energy production in its history in a single month: 216.56 megawatt hours in March

Since June 2014, only 652.82 gigawatt hours have come from plants that use Bunker or diesel , lit mainly in the first quarter of the year, less precipitation time. Garabito, ICE's main thermal power station, was the first plant in Latin America to install a filter to trap contaminating particles.

Basing its production on renewable resources allows the country to have one of the greenhouse gas emission factors. the lowest on the planet

Electricity production in Costa Rica

June 2014 to June 2018