In the country there are 19 cinema complexes with 142 projection rooms, a figure surpassed in the region by Guatemala and Costa Rica alone, where there are 149 and 144 rooms, respectively.
The number of audiovisual projection rooms or screens could reach 150 at the end of the year, when the new branch of Cinépolis in Costa del Este will be inaugurated.
Preparations are being made for the end of January for the tender documents for the supply of building materials and equipment for generators at the Pailas II geothermal project.
The tender, which the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) was going to hold last year, includes a contract for the supply of generating equipment and materials to build the powerhouse.
In Costa Rica generators of small scale energy are complaining about a lack of key definitions in the regulations in force since April and which regulate sales of surplus energy.
How rates are set, who will buy the bidirectional meters, how records will be created to manage the repayment of the surplus and how to obtain a certificate, are some of the questions arising from the regulation on Planning, Cooperation and Access to the National Grid (POASEN).
The American company Wastelectric has announced that it will invest $390 million in Costa Rica in a solid waste gasification plant to generate 45 MW per month.
The free trade zone in Coyol, Alajuela, would be the location of the processing plant measuring 40,000 m2 to recycle some 2,200 daily tons from 35 municipalities in the country. It is estimated that the energy generated from the process will be enough to supply approximately 108,000 households.
Costa Rica's state run power company is urging Congress to lift some of the restrictions on the exploitation of underground heat sources in places that have been declared as protected areas.
According to the president of the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), Teofilo de la Torre, it is important that this bill be received as soon as possible, "national parks have restricted uses and extracting steam from the land for geothermal use is one of them, the 'Rincon de la Vieja' volcano has great characteristics for steam extraction. If we know that there is a high possibility of increasing clean energy we have to try it. "