Geography
The size of Costa Rica is slightly smaller than this American state
What is West Virginia?
The total population of Costa Rica
What is 5,097,988 (as of July 2020)?
Renewable energy refers to this
What is "energy that comes from non-exhaustible resources, such as the sun, rivers, wind, heat inside the earth, and organic matter?"
The main drawback of renewable energy
What is the high economic cost?
The year that Costa Rica plans to be carbon neutral
What is 2021?
Hydroelectric power is a main source of energy in Costa Rica due to this
What is heavy rainfall and a plethora of water sources (rainfalls, rivers, streams)?
Costa Rica's poverty rate
What is about 20%?
The majority of energy comes from this resource
What is water (which generates more than 78% of electric needs)?
This is increasing due to such high investments in clean energy
What is debt? (ICE - Costa Rican Electricity Institute - is reaching almost $6 billion)
Renewables make up this much of Costa Rica's total energy usage
What is less than a quarter?
This geographic feature is common in Costa Rica
What are volcanoes and earthquakes?
The amount of cars per 1,000 people
What is 287?
Costa Rica has generated this much of its electricity from renewable resources (the past 4 years)
What is 98.53%?
This is done when self-powered plants are too costly
What is imported power? (About 60% of Central America's power comes from fossil fuels. These emissions are not included in Costa Rica's numbers)
This is responsible for around 65% of carbon emissions (the biggest source)
The yearly average of rainfall
What is 70 inches?
This amount of the population resides in urban areas
What is about 1/2?
The number of geothermal sites Costa Rica has
What is 6?
Environmentalists criticized a hydropower dam because
What is it passing a "critical wildlife corridor?"
The transportation sector has this percentage of energy related carbon emissions
What is 42%?
Costa Rica is surrounded by these bodies of water on either side of the country
What is the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean?
The employment rate of Costa Rica is this
What is 46.12?
Costa Rica runs on solely renewable energy this many days of the year, on average
There are concerns that solar power is going to
What is "would cut into the state electricity company's profits?"
ICE is a public institution created in this year
What is 1949?