EAI’s NRGBriefs: Nov. 2023
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Nov.2023) — Energy briefs as well as others related to finance and projects during November 2023 including PDVSA and the French co. Maurel & Prom inking a...
Energy Toolbase and Sunshine Deploy Storage System in Costa Rica
(Energy Toolbase, 5.Jan.2023) — Energy Toolbase has deployed its Acumen EMS™ controls software on an energy storage system with Sunshine, a Costa Rica-based solar development company. Sunshine installed the BYD Chess unit...
Pew Praises Commitments To Protect Coastal Wetlands
(Pew 5.Nov.2021) — The Pew Charitable Trusts applauded several nations for including ambitious targets to protect and restore coastal wetlands in their updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs). Parties to the...
CleanSpark Deploys Microgrid In Costa Rica
(CleanSpark, 1.Sep.2020) — CleanSpark, Inc., a diversified software and services company announced the successful deployment of the company's mPulse software on its latest microgrid project in Central America. Located on...
CleanSpark And Sunshine Energy Ink Costa Rica Deal
(CleanSpark, 7.Aug.2020) — CleanSpark, Inc., a diversified software and services company and Sunshine Energy Corp., announce consummation of an exclusive partnership. The agreement allows Sunshine the exclusive right to market...
OPEC Releases MOMR With Data Thru Feb. 2019
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 14.Mar.2019) — OPEC announced publication of its Monthly Oil Market Report (MOMR) as of 14 March 2019 with details on producers in Latin America and...
Prioritizing Women In Efforts To Combat Climate Change
(Sigrid Kaag and Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, co-chairs of the NDC Partnership, 6.Mar.2019) — On March 8th, groups around the world will celebrate International Women’s Day, recognizing the achievements of women...
Costa Rica Extended Prohibition Of Oil Exploitation Until 2050
(The Costa Rican News, Abelardo Canelo, 27.Feb.2019) — The President of the Republic, Carlos Alvarado and the Minister of Environment and Energy, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, signed a decree that extends...
Costa Rica Launches ‘Unprecedented’ Push For Zero Emissions By 2050
(Sebastian Rodriguez, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 25.Feb.2019) — Costa Rica’s president has launched an economy-wide plan to decarbonize the country by 2050, saying the Central American nation aims to show other...
Costa Rica’s Wind Energy Capacity Climbs To 407.8 MW
(Costa Rican Times, 21.Jan.2019) — Costa Rican power utility Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) said Wednesday that the country’s national electric system has reached 407.77 MW of installed wind capacity,...
Costa Rica Will Host Pan-American Marine Energy Conference
(The Costa Rica Star, Laura Alvarado, 20.Jan.2019) — Costa Rica will host the Pan-American Marine Energy Conference (PAMEC-2020), January 26 through January 29, 2020, an event where experts will be...
Clean Energy Leader Costa Rica Turns Attention to Electric Cars
(AFP, 31.Dec.2018) — Costa Rica likes to advertise itself as an ecological paradise, where more than 98 percent of its electricity needs are met by clean energy. But in the...
Costa Rica Went 300 Days On Renewable Energy Alone
(Newsweek, Kelly Wynne, 9.Dec.2018) — While the west battles itself over the reality of climate change, reasonable diesel tax and how to make their countries sustainable and eco-friendly, Costa Rica...
Costa Rica Crime Groups Diversifying Oil Theft Techniques
(InSight Crime, Parker Asmann, 10.Oct.2018) — The ways in which gangs of fuel thieves in Costa Rica are tapping oil pipelines in order to steal and later resell the good...
FDI in LAC Region Falls for Third Straight Year
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 12.Jul.2018) – Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Latin America and the Caribbean fell for a third straight year in 2017, reported the Economic Commission for...
Costa Rica to Use Plastics for Roads
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 10.Jul.2018) – A small Central American country will be considered a pioneer in the region with use of a type of “eco-friendly asphalt” that gives...
No Oil, No Army: Costa Rica First Nation To Eliminate Fossil Fuels
(Sputnik News, 8.July.2018) — Costa Rica will become the first nation in the world to completely eliminate fossil fuels. In May, the country's new president, 38-year-old former journalist Carlos Alvarado...
Costa Rica Generated Renewable Energy for 300 Days
(Independent, Tom Embury-Dennis, 22.Nov.2017) – Costa Rica’s electricity has been produced entirely using renewable energy for 300 days since the start of January. With more than a month of 2017...