98.53% of the electricity generated in Costa Rica between June 1, 2014 and June 30, 2018 came from renewable sources.

In total the National Electric System (SEN) in this period produces 44,300.53 gigabytes per hour, out of which 43,647.72 came from five clean energy sources: Hydroelectric (74%), Geothermal (11.92), Wind (11.08%), Biomass (0.73%) and Sun (0.03%). Bunker and diesel represented only 1.47%.

In addition to the Reventazon Hydrolectric plant, the SEN added 7 Wind plants in the past 48 months, 6 hydroelectric and one solar, in total 1,197 days of 100% production were accumulated.

The SEN expects to add  the ICE geothermal plant Las Pailas II which will have a capacity of 55 megawatts and will be the most modern of its type in the Central American Region.

“Basing its energy generation on renewable resources allows the country to have one of the lowest greenhouse effect gas emissions from electric consumption in the planet”, says the press release of the Costa Rican Electric Institute (ICE).