We must boost our electrical potential

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We must boost our electrical potential

When, at the end of March, President Chaves emphasized to the United States Secretary of Commerce, other senior officials and businessmen that Costa Rica has a 99% clean electricity grid, the data, unfortunately, was out of date. For that month, it was just over 80%. The combination of higher demand, lower hydroelectric generation due to lower river flow, and poor ICE planning in its sales to Central America, boosted thermal generation. In the f…