Government announcement to add more power to the electrical system is very important

This Acope release was published using machine translation.

The Government's announcement to add greater power to the electrical system is very important:

• To confront climate change with indigenous renewable resources
• To attract private investment of the highest level
• To shore up the supply of our electrical system
• And above all to improve user rates.

Many things were stopped being done in the past, due to the fallacy that the country was over-installed. But the data kills the myth. Climate evidence has refuted this prejudice, whose main consequences were the decrease in investments in the electricity sector, and the disconnection of private plants with clean and cheap energy. With these decisions, the country and the users lost, since these plants represent the cheapest electrical energy according to an independent report from Aresep in 2021.

Now ICE has had to use thermal generation, the import of fossil energy, and the rental of emergency plants, to meet growing demand, all much more expensive.

It is not possible that in Costa Rica it is easier to buy polluting, dirty and expensive bunkers to produce electricity, or import electricity of thermal origin from other countries; than buying clean and cheap energy from Costa Rican generators.

• That is why no kWh of clean and cheap energy should have been disconnected.
• That is why we must support the Government in this announcement to add more electricity generation from clean sources.

Within the Costa Rican legislation and legal security, the government and country has the support of the private sector in the effort that can and should be made to collaborate with our electrical system through renewable plants.

Mario Alvarado Mora
Executive President, ACOPE
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