Electrical cooperatives will promote clean energy

July 24th,2014

Eight power distributors came together to promote clean generation projects as an alternative to lower rates.

This is the case Coneléctricas Consortium, Coopeguanacaste, Coopesantos, Coopealfaroruiz, Coopelesca and the Administrative Board of the Utility of Carthage (Jasec); also the Public Service Company of Heredia (ESPH) and Cubujuquí Consortium.

All of these companies announced Wednesday the formation of Distribution Companies House Energy and Telecommunications (cedet).

One of its main objectives is to promote, together, power projects based on renewable energy such as wind (wind), hydro (water), solar, geothermal (heat from the earth) or biomass (biological material).

Thus mechanisms are intended to contribute to the lowering of electricity rates.

Omar Miranda, general manager and vice president Coopelesca new organization, said that in the short term also will be devoted to reviewing utilities costs.

Also seek to promote energy efficiency campaigns to subscribers save.

The Government also reviews the country's energy matrix looking for other sources of energy. For that, earlier this month, ordered the creation of a commission.

Just last year the rates for the industrial sector increased to 30%.

Autonomy. According to Omar Miranda, who joined companies serve 23% of national demand.

Your challenge for the future, he said, is to meet this demand with energy that they generate and not buying at the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE). They will give special attention to wind and water projects, as well as solar energy in Guanacaste.

No later ruled that the House will develop other geothermal initiatives with ICE and the National Power and Light Company (CNFL).

Elias Calderon Coopesantos manager, said that the implementation of joint projects also allow them to modify its tariff system. Now they all have different rates because they get energy from different sources.

During the presentation of the Chamber, employers criticized the role of the Regulatory Authority for Public Services (Aresep). They believe that the body demands many requirements and reports that increase their costs and expensive services.

Source: 'La Nación'

Electrical entrepreneurs see new generation projects as an alternative to the tariff problem

This Wednesday announced the creation of a chamber which groups the six companies that distribute electricity in the country

July 23rd, 2014.

The development of new generation projects with clean energy is considered by the electrical business as one of the main ways to reduce electricity costs.

Omar Miranda, general manager and vice president Coopelesca new House of Power Distribution Companies and Telecommunications (CEDET) said that short-term efforts of this group will precisely targeted to the tariff issue by performing generation projects renewable natural resources, review of business costs and energy efficiency campaigns to subscribers save.

Miranda added that the construction of the hydroelectric project Diquis is vital, as it will ensure the availability of water for power generation throughout the year.

Meanwhile Elias Calderon Coopesantos manager said that one of the ways to develop this type of project is jointly because now all companies have different rates because they get energy from different distributed sources.

On this theme, Miranda said that by holding 23% of domestic demand, one of the main challenges is to meet this demand with its own generation by wind and water projects (and in the case of solar Guanacaste).

Also do not rule out that to develop future geothermal projects jointly or with the support of the Costa Rican Electricity Institute and the National Power and Light Company.

The House of Power Distribution Companies consists of the Consortium Coneléctricas, Coopeguanacaste, Coopesantos, Coopealfaforuiz, Coopelesca, Jasec, ESPH and Cubujuquí Consortium.

Employers also criticized the role of ARESEP in pricing, because they ensure that the regulator asks many requirements and reports that increase operating costs and costly service. Considered to be equating the fundamental requirements to ensure good service and reduce costs.

Source: 'La Nación'

2013 was the hottest year since 1900

July 18th, 2014.

Washington. AFP temperatures rise, greenhouse gases hit record peaks and glaciers of the Arctic melt, making 2013 one of the warmest years on record.

So what scientists warned in the annual report on the state of climate science journal with climate data and events compiled by 425 scientists from 57 countries.

"These results reinforce what scientists observed for decades: that our planet is transformed into a warmer place," said Kathryn Sullivan, president of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

In 2013, global temperatures were among the highest in the records began in the early twentieth century.

"Australia had its warmest year, while for Argentina was the second warmest and New Zealand, the third," the document states.

The surface temperature of the oceans and seas also rose last year and was placed among the 10 warmest it has been, while the Arctic had its seventh warmest year.

The ice in the Arctic was the sixth less extensive since 1979, when satellite observations began.

On average, water levels also rose, maintaining an upward trend of about three millimeters per year in the past two decades.

Emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels continued to increase during 2013, again reaching historic peaks.

For the first time, the daily concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million (ppm), measured according to the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, one year after other observatories FILED 400 ppm in the Arctic.

The report was published in the scientific journal Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

"Provides a detailed scientific view of what is happening in our world," said Keith Seifer, who served as director of the group of scientists in charge of the report.

Source: La Nación

Agro suffers first disorders by El Niño

MAG asked some farmers not to grow and move livestock

Deficit rainfall in North Pacific in June was 65%, according to the IMN

July 14th, 2014

The request to suspend some crops and livestock to move to new areas, are the first effects of the El Niño phenomenon in agriculture.

These suggestions were made by experts from the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) to producers in different parts of the country, particularly in the North Pacific (Guanacaste).

Felipe Arguedas, national director of Agricultural Extension MAG said that suggestions are made for employers not lose animals or crops.

The situation arises because in the North Pacific, for example, the rainfall deficit relative to the historical average was 65% in June and 30% in May.

Meanwhile, the accumulated rainfall from January to May (June data has not yet been added) indicates that in this region fell 39% below the historical average.

The decline in the volume of rainfall extends to the Central Valley in June where it rained 10% less compared to the historical average, according to the head of forecasts (IMN), Werner Stoltz National Meteorological Institute.

Meanwhile, in the northern Caribbean, the situation is reversed, during June rained 47% more than the historical average.

Stoltz explained that these figures are communicated to members of a national commission on El Niño, composed by entities such as the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG), the National Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (AyA) and the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad ( ICE), among others.

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