Costa Rica plans renewed biofuel program

The Costa Rican government will relaunch an old energy project to replace fossil fuels with biofuels, according to El País. The initiative is in response to a request made by the country’s Vice President, Stephen Brenner, to the Legislative Assembly to deal with the Fuel Energy Transition Initiative, which was proposed more than a year ago.

According to a press release, the so-called 24,079 Recovery Project will replace the use of diesel fuel in heavy transportation with biomethane, a gas produced by the decomposition of organic agricultural, livestock and industrial waste, in the first phase.

The strategy consists of a phased, sector-by-sector gradual replacement of diesel, financed by the United Nations Joint Fund for Sustainable Development Goals and the Industrial Development Plan.