Aresep slows increase from electricity companies that provide service in Heredia and Zarcero

Energy Municipality rejected the increases

April 16,2013.

San Jose (Editorial). Power companies that provide this service in Heredia and Zarcero may not raise rates after the Administration of Energy so decide.

Days ago the Public Service Company of Heredia (ESPH) asked the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Aresep) an increase of 4.29 percent in its tariffs that have been endorsed, came into effect from 1. May.

ESPH also requested 10.57 percent increase in street lighting service.

Juan Manuel Quesada, mayor of energy, said "it is our duty to ensure that users and providers of public services, which are fixed rates technically sound."

Quesada scored rigorous verification mechanism reporting by regulated firms.

The other company that was rejected was rising to Rural Electrification Cooperative Alfaro Ruiz, operating in the canton of Zarcero, who sought an increase of 12.84 percent.

Source: "La Nación".

Costa Rica will import cleaner fuels since January

Experts provide improved air and less deterioration of motor vehicles.

Sulfur in diesel will drop from 50 to 15 parts per million, as in Europe.

Fuels sold in the country from January will be more environmentally friendly and cause less deterioration in motor vehicles.

The Ministry of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications (Minaet) announced yesterday that in 2013 the country will market diesel and gasoline with a smaller amount of sulfur.

This colorless gas is one of the major air pollutants in cities and causing severe respiratory problems.

According to the announcement of René Castro, Minister of Environment, the country will lower the amount of sulfur in diesel to 50 parts per million to 15 parts per million (ppm).

This allows the country to achieve the same standard of diesel sold in Europe, where the requirements for protecting the environment are more drastic.

Furthermore, gasoline (and super plus) will of 200 ppm sulfur to about 80 parts per million, as confirmed Castro.

"This is excellent news for a country that has been calling for cleaner fuels (...). That will make fuel from Costa Rica not only the cleanest in Central America, but that makes up the rules of the most advanced countries of the European Union, "the minister reiterated.

For these changes to take effect in hydrocarbons, a regulation is necessary, to be drafted in the coming days.

It will include maximum levels of MMT (methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl), a gasoline additive, whose excess vehicles damaged.

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Generation license granted to two companies

The Government of Nicaragua granted a Canadian owned company and another Nicaraguan generation license for the operation and maintenance of two hydroelectric plants in northern and southern Caribbean, an official source said yesterday.

These permits were granted by the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) firms Puntudo Stone Hydro SA, Canadian-owned company and Cold Mountain Sustainable Energy Tropical SA, Nicaragua's capital, told Efe that the spokesman for State institution Maria Antonieta Santos.

The first permit is for the project Stitch Stone, which will build a hydropower plant with an installed capacity of 15 megawatts in the Mico River, tributary of Escondido, in the municipality Bullocks Wharf, on the southern Caribbean, the ministry said in a statement.

The second permit is for the hydroelectric Las Cañas, in the northern province of Matagalpa and includes the construction of a hydroelectric plant of 1.47 MW of installed capacity, which will use the Yasica river, a tributary of El Tuma, detailing the institution.

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