Costa Rica has successfully gone 300 days using only renewable energy, beating their own 2015 record of 299 days on renewable energy.
Hydropower has become the largest energy generator in Costa Rica, bring in 78 percent of the country’s renewable energy; followed by wind, geothermal at 10 percent and biomass and solar at 1 percent.
Dr Monica Araya, Costa Rican clean development advisor, said the 300 day achievement is “fantastic,” but it hides a paradox, which is that nearly 70 percent of all our energy consumption is oil.