Costa Rica goes by way of an power disaster, and the whole nation will undergo an influence outage for about three hours beginning subsequent week. Business house owners, space specialists, and politicians agree on the necessity to take motion to keep away from energy rationing or blackouts sooner or later. Therefore, they contemplate that the manufacturing of photo voltaic and wind power ought to improve its presence within the nation.
“A renewable supply, by itself, can’t meet the demand for electrical energy. We want a matrix composed of various sources, of various sizes and origins, that present competitiveness and reliability to customers,” mentioned Mario Alvarado, govt director of the Costa Rican Association of Energy Producers.
Due to its geographical location, Costa Rica has the third finest photo voltaic electrical energy power potential per sq. meter by way of the whole American continent. However, that wealth is wasted day-after-day due to the reluctance of the ICE to permit the event of photo voltaic power, in response to Jorge Esteban Padilla, a member of the board of administrators of the Chamber of Distributed Generation.
The refusal of ICE isn’t comprehensible, as a result of photo voltaic power may help alleviate the present disaster within the nation. However, since January, the Public Services Regulatory Authority (ARESEP) has succumbed to strain from ICE and different electrical energy distributors to ascertain a charge that daunts non-public photo voltaic panel manufacturing.
“Like AyA that fees customers to gather rainwater utilizing a bucket. It would not make sense. If ICE promotes non-public era with photo voltaic panels, this time, there will probably be much less strain on electrical energy demand,” Padilla mentioned. Since January, the price of electrical energy for photo voltaic panel customers has elevated by as much as 400% in comparison with earlier charges as a consequence of this cost.
The distributed era with photo voltaic panels isn’t seen as an enemy of ICE, however an ally, a complement that helps the nation address the rising demand for electrical energy. The doable rationing is going down in a context the place the federal government of Rodrigo Chaves promotes the legislation of concord within the electrical energy market. This is a long-standing demand within the productive sector.
“The state of affairs we’re experiencing at present is a wake-up name for actions to be taken to keep away from, scale back, and remove the vulnerability proven within the energy system. To this finish, we should enable as a lot renewable era as doable, promote distributed era, and strengthen the authorized framework to encourage new investments,” he added.
