SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA (By Procomer, 19.Dec.2025, Words: 531) — Costa Rica has evolved from exporting primarily 4 traditional products in the early 1980s to placing more than 4,000 goods and services in nearly 150 international markets by 2024, according to a study prepared by the Trade and Investment Promotion […]
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OLADE: LAC region nuclear energy and natural gas use rise in Jul. 2025
SALVADOR DE BAHIA, BRAZIL (By Pedro Silva, Energy Analytics Institute, 20.Nov.2025, Words: 290) — Nuclear energy and natural gas saw significant growth in Jul. 2025, according to The Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE by its Spanish acronym). The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region generated 161 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity […]
Peninsula Papagayo launches 2024 impact report on Costa Rica [free pdf download]
ANAMA CITY, PANAMA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 22Jun.2025, Words: 140) — Peninsula Papagayo, the 1,400-acre private club and resort in northern Costa Rica — home to Four Seasons, Andaz, and Nekajui, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve resorts — released its 2024 Impact Report alongside the debut of the Papagayo Legacy program, a curated collection of sustainability-minded experiences designed to inspire […]
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 first framework agreement; Venezuela to hold referendum related to the Essequibo disputed region between Venezuela and Guyana; Colombia’s National Hydrocarbon […]
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 integrated with Acumen EMS for Laboratorios Calox, a pharmaceutical facility in San José, Costa Rica. This commercial project is Energy Toolbase’s first deployment […]
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 Paris Agreement are increasingly recognizing the role that coastal “blue carbon” habitats can play in both mitigating and adapting to […]
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 an industrial equipment retail facility in San Jose, Costa Rica, the project utilizes CleanSpark’s patented mPulse controller to coordinate all […]
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 and sell CleanSpark’s products and services throughout the country of Costa Rica. As part of the agreement, Sunshine will license […]
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 the Caribbean from Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. *** © Energy Analytics Institute (EAI)
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 are growing increasingly sophisticated, providing further evidence of the growing strength of criminal groups in the Central American nation. What […]
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 Latin America and the Caribbean or CEPAL by its Spanish acronym. The details were revealed in CEPAL’s annual report titled […]
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 a new life to plastics. This week the Costa Rican government announced the country would begin to pave streets with […]
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 announced the plan to ban fossil fuels during his inauguration speech. “Decarbonization is the great task of our generation and […]
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 to go, the Central American country is set to smash its own annual record of green energy use. In 2015 […]