Already in October we were commenting that most of the electricity that consumes Costa Rica comes from renewable energy. All great news that joins another that arrived at the beginning of this month in which the protagonist is Uruguay with huge percentage of electricity obtained from these clean and sustainable energy sources.
Costa Rica is a small country with no more than 5 million people. It recently released a statement in which it showed how for 285 days it had been getting its electricity 100% from these renewables. Now, the Costa Rican Electricity Institute has launched another in which it claims that 99% of all electricity obtained came from this type of source in 2015. The rest, 1%, was from fossil fuels.
The Costa Rican government announced in March that the country had been going directly to renewable energy for the first time for 75 days this year. It also set a target to reach 97,1 percent in geothermal, wind, biomass and solar energy sources for the rest of the year.
This has become a race against time for most countries using renewables to their full extent. Uruguay is another of those countries that generate 95% of their electricity from clean energy sources. Iceland is also looking its way to achieve the same, and Denmark recently generated the majority of 140% of its electricity demand from wind turbines.
Thanks to these countries we can say that it is opening the way for more to join it in order to say that they are reaching almost 100% renewable energy. Although certain countries, with the highest electricity consumption on the planet, such as the United States, it would take 35 years in being able to obtain 80% of its electricity from these sources.