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Dennis Melendez

Change involves changing minds tariff models

  • Dennis Meléndez r General Regulator

  • The chief of the leading Aresep a plan to modify four pricing models of utility. The most pressing is used for setting bus fares.


Mercedes Agüero R. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 24/01/2011

The Regulatory Authority for Public Services (Aresep) seeks to alter the way they set prices and fees that citizens pay for public services.

This is the mechanism for calculating bus fares, the price of fuel, electricity generation from private companies and a model to recognize the cost of fuel in electricity rates for ICE. In an interview with The Nation, in late December, the controller general, Dennis Melendez, spoke about the progress of that effort and ensures that the greatest challenge is the change in mentality.

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insurance plans to run that year

China will capture the energy sector participation in the country during 2011

  • Transnational China  intervene in water plan Chucás, private work Tárcoles River

  • Another project is Recope plant expansion, the rest being studied

Alvaro Murillo  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   15/01/2011

A private project of electricity generation and expansion of productive capacity are the only plans Recope and scheduler for China to develop this year as part of cooperation with Costa Rica.

Other areas also of interest to Costa Rica, as economic aid to build road works are still under negotiation between the two countries, the embassy and officials of the Chancellery of San Jose.

The only additional project mentioned in a reply given by the Embassy of China is the possible involvement of "some Chinese companies" that are joining Costa Rican partners to move into telephony services of third-generation of Huawei company here.

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Energy Contradiction


Scarce resources to develop public works, the country refuses to encourage investments by private generators


Private projects provide clean energy generated from biomass, wind and water in amounts comparable to those on the ground Garabito


13/12/2010 9:25 a.m.

Costa Rica environmentalist, committed to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality in 2021, prefer to install thermal plants for electricity generation instead of exploiting clean energy sources.  Chooses to move from coast to coast, the fuel for the operation of these plants, assuming the serious risks involved for seas, rivers and forests.

Costa Rica's modern-minded economic progress and decided to join the list of developed countries, preferred growing dependence on foreign oil before exploiting their own resources. Elects to be subject to the vagaries of international oil market, assuming the serious economic risk.  Scarce resources to develop public works, refused to allow private generators to expand the output capacity by investing in their pockets. Alternatively, in addition, pay four times more for dirty energy to offer the private sector attractive purchase prices.

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Garabito power plant will supply fuel from 2011

ICE will use streets to decant bunker 470,000 liters daily

20 tankers travel 265 km per day. entre Limón, San José y Puntarenas between Limon and Puntarenas San José

Institute urges construction of an oil dock in the Pacific


Esteban Oviedo | This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 05/01/2009

A project ICE electric road transport will require up to 20 tanks of fuel a day, loaded with 470,000 liters, between Port Moin (Limon) and Montes de Oro (Puntarenas).

Throughout this journey of 265 kilometers, the tanks necessary to cross the busy part of metropolitan San Jose.

Each truck carried more than 23,000 liters of petroleum called bunker.

This fuel will be used to supply power Plant Garabito, which is built by ICE in Montes de Oro, Puntarenas, next to the North American road.

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Policies discussed surrounding the bill

Electricity Law will attempt to avoid the path of failure on 2011

Chinchilla recalled that the text was made by Oscar Arias 'sentenced' to a file

President announced that the bill is a priority basis for discussion

Alvaro Murillo This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 31/12/2010 04:43 PM

New Year's resolutions of President Laura Chinchilla are marked largely by the success of the project on General Law on Electricity and the possibility of avoiding the path to the "failure" which, she said, the proposal had left by the government Oscar Arias.

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Already submitted to Congress, preliminarily set up a special commission and marked "urgent" because the executive, the project is waiting for political viability, after several years of ups and downs compounded by the competing interests of the Institute Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) and the private sector generation.

 
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