future electricity

Security and solidarity of the electric model of Costa Rica

Our country is undergoing a process of profound structural changes, changes that deepened with the imposition of the FTA with the United States and going the opposite direction to the welfare of the majority.

Such transformations are inspired by neoliberal conceptions of wealth concentration and disappearance of all those entities that had come to be cornerstone of what later known as the Rule of Law, as the welfare state, as the State Outreach.

In recent times, has been on the table for discussion of political and economic spheres hegemonizing real power in our country, the energy issue, specifically, the issue of electricity, to date, has been largely in the hands of ICE.

Over recent years are countless initiatives of bills one way or another seek to transform radically speaking, the conception of the provision of electricity to the national population to take their historical and traditional concept of public service solidarity, making it a mere commodity, for profit and to increase private capital have already been introduced in this strategic aspect of national life.

This occurred, for example, the 7200 law that authorized the private power cogeneration for the longest time ICE finances bled, reaching a scandalous extent that producing just 12% of national electricity generation, were carried to their private coffers nearly 30% of the electricity sector of ICE. Redondísimo Business! Read the rest of this entry »