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Costa Rica is much more than a lush, green tourist paradise; it's also a green energy pioneer. The small Central American nation has generated 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources for the past 113 days, and the run isn't over yet. The country, which draws clean energy from a variety of renewable sources, still has its sights on a full year without fossil fuels for electricity generation.
With a 113-day stretch of 100-percent renewable energy under its belt and several months left in the year, Costa Rica is edging closer to its target. Costa Rica could be on track to match the record set with its renewable energy production last year, which accounted for 99 percent of the country's electricity. That included 285 days powered completely by renewable sources, according to the Costa Rican Electricity Institute.
It's a small country with 5 million people and not a lot of heavy industry, but it's still impressive. There are many other countries with similar climate and terrain that could do likewise.
Previously:
Costa Rica Gets 100% of Its Power from Renewables for 1st Quarter of 2015
Costa Rica Achieved 99% Renewable Energy This Year
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Thursday August 25 2016, @09:11PM
I actually did take a moment to consider how to make that statement and figured Western was reasonable. I didn't want to say Costa Rica was Third World, but now that I think about it developing would have been a better statement.
Since I enjoy linking Wikipedia so much, there is an article which discusses the usage of the terminology "Western". I was thinking along the lines of the modern economic definition from the article, although the many definitions in the article stress how loose of a term Western Nation is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world#Economic_definition [wikipedia.org]