Costa Rica, almost independent of fossil fuels!

Renewable energies except solar electric or thermal (seeforums dedicated below): wind turbines, energy from the sea, hydraulic and hydroelectricity, biomass, biogas, deep geothermal energy ...
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Re: Costa Rica, almost independent of fossil fuels!




by Obamot » 02/06/16, 22:25

Yes and....

Do we have to guess what you think? : Lol:

Is this a new game? : Mrgreen:
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by moinsdewatt » 04/06/16, 13:45

Costa Rica, almost independent of fossil fuels!


Misleading title.

It is "fair" for electricity.

For cars and other vehicles it is always fossil fuels.
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by Christophe » 11/06/16, 16:34

That's right ... just as some press titles have been misleading about Portugal recently https://www.econologie.com/portugal-alim ... ouvelable/ but when we speak of "renewable energy" we think most of the time of electricity ... in popular consciousness!
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by Christophe » 25/11/17, 09:34

99.6% right now: http://www.humanite-biodiversite.fr/art ... ouvelables

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As of November 17, the country accumulates 99,62% of electricity production with its five renewable sources, the highest proportion since 1987:

78,26% of the electricity comes from water,
10,29% of the wind,
10,23% of geothermal energy,
0,84% ​​of the biomass and the sun
In 2015, the SEN (National Electricity System) recorded 299 days of 100% renewable production,
In 2016, the accumulation reached 271 days.
In 2017, six weeks before the end of the year, it has already reached 300 days.
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Re: Costa Rica, almost independent of fossil fuels!




by moinsdewatt » 29/09/19, 22:49

Ban all fossil fuels by 2050, the bet of Costa Rica

AFP published the 20 Apr 2019

Eric Orlich and his wife Gioconda own two electric cars which they charge at home using solar panels. A situation that could become the norm in Costa Rica where the government has just launched a vast program to ban fossil fuels by 2050.

"It is quite feasible and necessary," said Eric Orlich, who lives with his wife and two children in a mountainous area east of San José. Company leader in the field of solar panels, he is also president of the Association for Electric Mobility, which promotes the use of alternative modes of transport.

Launched in February by the government of this country of 5 million inhabitants, the "National Decarbonization Plan" aims to get rid of the energies emitting greenhouse gases such as coal, oil or natural gas.

First objective: that 70% of public transport switch to electric by 2035 and 100% by 2050. "Is it realistic? Of course, and probably that we will achieve it before", enthuses Eric Orlich.

A bet entirely achievable for the Costa Rican diplomat Cristiana Figueres who participated in the negotiations of the Paris Agreement on the climate. "The government has cautiously set the deadline at 2050 because that's what the Paris Agreement requires," she explains. "But I am confident that we will get there first."

"Once we have successfully completed the electrification process of mobility and restarted more efficient agriculture and livestock farming, it will snowball" and accelerate decarbonization, she predicts.

Because in addition to public transport, the national plan wanted by the left president Carlos Alvarado aims to touch all aspects of the economy: industry, agriculture, livestock. It also provides for a reforestation program, improvement of waste management and sanitation in all urban areas.

A "green" tax reform is also on the program to replace tax revenues linked to the sale of fuels and automobiles.

- What about the bike? -

"It is a change in our social dynamic and our economy. By 2050, our urban and rural landscape will be very different, with more pleasant cities (...) where the car will no longer be queen", explained to AFP the First Lady, Claudia Dobles, an architect who coordinates the urban renewal file of the program, including the transport component.

The latter provides for two key projects: the construction of an electric train that will cross the metropolitan area of ​​San José, the most populated area in the country, and the modernization of the bus network, which will be connected to the train. The idea is to put an end to the omnipresence of the car, particularly in the capital, where the streets are polluted and very often congested.

But the program is not without arousing criticism, especially as the government has so far not presented any budget. Juan Carlos Hidalgo, analyst at the very liberal Cato Institute in Washington, is surprised that the objectives were set without "taking into account the costs".

For his part, David Gomez, who campaigns for a wider use of bicycles in the city, regrets that the national plan is not more ambitious in terms of the development of soft travel, such as walking or cycling, which would reduce actually the traffic jams.

"We need incentives so that people are motivated to abandon their cars in favor of cycling. It would be a much more effective measure to decarbonize the economy, than the simple replacement of gasoline cars by electric cars", judge he.

"It is not because we will have smarter technologies and systems that this will make mobility problems disappear," admits Claudia Dobles, who above all wants public transport to become a reflex for individuals to get around.

Cristiana Figeres recalls that, faced with the climate emergency, all countries will have to commit to decarbonizing their economies. But for her, Costa Rica has a major advantage: between wind, hydro, solar and geothermal, the small country is only a little 1,5% of total self-sufficiency in renewable electricity.



https://www.connaissancedesenergies.org ... ica-190420
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