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The Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) has announced that it is developing a national biogas strategy. The use of residues from pineapple and coffee production will be key to producing biogas, contributing to the transformation of the country’s energy mix.
MINAE revealed that the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and several other organizations are collaborating on the strategy. The plan aims to pave the way for the development, use and transportation of clean energy and biogas fuels, mainly from wastewater treatment, daily solid waste treatment, and agricultural and agro-industrial waste.
For Costa Rica, the development of the initiative represents progress in its national decarbonization plan, which aims to achieve the lowest emissions levels by 2050 in line with global climate goals. Vice President Stephen Brenner said the use of biofuels offers the country an opportunity to participate in clean energy production to meet its commitment to reduce its carbon footprint.
“Costa Rica has the technical capacity to produce biofuels. The alliance between the private sector and the government, coupled with the support of institutions such as IICA, gives us the opportunity to start on the path to decarbonizing heavy transport, with the possibility of exporting this green energy to other countries,” he said.
IICA will provide technical support for the development of the strategy, which aims to ensure that biogas production mitigates the effects of climate change, creates opportunities for the development of this type of energy in the agricultural sector, and generates economic development opportunities through the use of bioenergy.
Manuel Otero, IICA Director General, stressed that the biodigestion technology is characterized by its great flexibility in processing different types of feedstock. “Biodigers provide smallholders with access to energy products and allow large agro-industrial companies to produce biogas on a large scale. This technology also becomes an efficient way to process organic waste,” he added.
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