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150 Days and Counting, Costa Rica Gets All of Its Electricity From Renewables
Clean power superstar Costa Rica has hit another renewable energy milestone. The Central American country’s electric grid has been powered entirely by its mix of hydropower, wind, solar, geothermal and biomass for 150 days this year and counting.
Impressively, as Mashable reported, the country has not used fossil fuels for electricity for the last 76 days, from June 16 to Sept. 2, according to data from the country’s power operator, Costa Rica Electricity Institute (ICE).
According to an ICE report, hydropower contributed about 80 percent of the country’s electricity needs in August, followed by geothermal (12 percent), wind (7 percent) and solar energy (0.01 percent).
Costa Rica hasn’t needed to rely on fossil fuels for electricity since June 16. “Since then, it’s been 76 consecutive days in which all electricity has come from plants that use renewable resources,” the ICE said.
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