The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE), in partnership with private enterprise and local government, officially authorized the first electric recharge center in Alajuela on Tuesday.
The initiative is part of the three-station pilot scheme promoted by the Institute in conjunction with South Korea within the Intelligent Energy Cooperation Program.
This second refueling center is located in Plaza Real. The first one is located in Sabana Norte, in front of Jorge Manuel Dengo’s ICE building, while the third will be located in Jacó, later this month. The use of the stations has no cost to the user.
Jazmín Zúñiga, marketing executive of Plaza Real, stressed that
this type of actions, which require everyone’s effort, is leading us towards carbon neutrality.”
Mayor Roberto Thompson, Legislator Franklin Corella, and Laura Lizano from the Sectoral Division of the Ministry of Environment and Energy, as well as representatives of importers and users of electric vehicles, also attended the inaugural activity.
At present, the country has 13 recharge stations and the ICE Group administers four: two from CNFL and two from the Institute, while the rest are the result of alliances, cooperatives and electricity distribution companies, such as Coopelesca and ESPH. CNFL will install four more stations this year.
ICE announced last week that it will acquire 100 electric vehicles in an effort to encourage the use of sustainable electro-mobility.
At the moment, Costa Rica registers 1.4 million cars and only 300 electric units.