Residents from San Carlos will have the option to generate their own electricity

Idea is to promote small generations plants based on renewable sources

Associate will save in receipts and surplus of energy produced that will benefit others

February 13th, 2014.

Cooperative Rural Electrification of San Carlos (Coopelesca) drive among its members, this year, the installation of small power plants for their own consumption, based on clean and renewable energy.

The distributed generation plan will allow consumers to participate provided their electricity and, if over, remove to the Cooperative Network for use of other, said Marcelino Blanco, deputy Energy Production.

So Coopelesca may, in the future, meet energy demand without increasing their energy purchases to the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) or other generator. Last year, 60% of the electricity consumed by 75,000 associates generated Coopelesca the cooperative own the remaining 40% were buying it to ICE.

The initiative addresses associated with properties or other conditions allow them to install plants no more than 10 kilowatts (kW) of capacity, the source of generation is hydroelectric, wind, solar or biomass (electricity produced from organic matter).

White stated that 20 potential candidates and analyze proposals for hydroelectric generation and have identified 10 potential based on sunlight and five other biomass.

The implementation is at an early stage because Coopelesca recently approved the policy by which this campaign will encourage the steps and requirements for applicants and the legal agreement between the parties to the interconnection between plants installed and the core network.

The main bases of all are that the investment will pay all associated project-which will be owner-but agrees to assign, without the mediation of payment, your surplus electricity.

Of course, neither would be required to meet a quota. Its real benefit is long-term savings.

"If we create this culture of electricity with clean energy could overcome the use of fossil fuels and translate into more competitive rates and associated saving money every month," said the representative of the Cooperative.

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