Companies to Present Energy Bill

A consortium of rural Costa Rican electricity corporations will present their proposal to reform the Energy Law.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The head of the consortium of electricity cooperatives (Coneléctricas R.L.), Erick Rojas, indicated that the lack of government collaboration has led them to propose the bill.

According to La Prensa Libre, Rojas, would not give many details of the content but indicated that while they hope to keep the current model, respecting regulations, they would include the participation of private generators.

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