With capacity to generate up to 17,58 MW the hydroelectric plant in Bijagua in Upala, Alajuela province has started operating.
From a statement issued by the President of Costa Rica:
Bijagua, Upala April 14, 2016. The cooperative Electrificación Rural de Guanacaste has started operating its new Bijagua hydroelectric plant, located in the canton of Upala, Alajuela province, which will power 21,000 homes.
The regulation which has been long-awaited because it would lead to dozens of investment projects, has been challenged in the Constitutional Court.
The "preventing" machine still works very effectively in Costa Rica, this time to stop huge investments that would help solve the problem of waste disposal afflicting municipalities.
Environmental viability proceedings for energy projects using trash as a fuel source have been suspended after a constitutional complaint was filed against the regulation governing the incineration of waste.
In Costa Rica an electricity distributor has announced it plans to invest $35 million in a power plant to generate fuel with solid waste in Belen, province of Guanacaste.
The company Coopeguanacaste has proposed to the municipalities of Liberia, Carrillo and Nicoya that they send them their waste which will be used as raw material in the plant, which they plant to operate using the method of incineration.
More companies are brining fiber optics to households in the greater metropolitan area of Guanacaste, promising profound changes in the market of fixed internet services.
Netsys is one of the companies which will start offering residential fiber optic services in the area of Rohrmoser, while Coopeguanacaste will be focusing on the central districts of Nicoya, Santa Cruz and Carrillo.
Twelve hydroelectric plants and seven wind parks are scheduled to start operations in the next three years, having capacity to generate up to 800 MW.
Of the 19 projects spread across the country, 15 will be implemented by private producers and cooperatives. The largest project, the Reventazón hydroelectric dam, with a capacity to generate 307 MW and supply 525,000 homes, is being developed by the state-owned Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE). This entity is also carrying out the expansion of the Cachi and Rio Macho dams with an approximate generation of 20 MW and 53 MW, respectively.
Overwhelmed by the growing impact of energy costs, large electricity consumers in Costa Rica are asking for a reduction in their electricity rates of between 10.7% and 38.6%.
From a press release by the Regulatory Authority for Public Services (Aresep):
The Costa Rican Association of Large Energy Consumers (ACOGRACE) has requested a rebate for electricity rates in the business sector.
In Costa Rica, Coopeguanacaste built two substations and expanded a third.
With this investment, the Guanacaste Electricity Cooperative (Coopeguanacaste), will improve the electricity service in the communities of Liberia, Papagayo, Santa Cruz, Carillo and nearby localities.
“Banco de Costa Rica” and “Banco Popular”, two state banks, funded each 50% of the project.
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