San Jose - Jose Antonio Aragon, member of Costa Rica''s Board of Directors on Planning and Power Development of Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE), presented in Cuba how his country is fostering the use of renewable energy.

Aragon delivered the lecture 'Costa Rica: a Renewable Electricity Country' at a two-day international conference on the subject in Havana that closed Thursday evening.

Aragón highlighted Costa Rica is following a unique power genereating model in the world, with an electricity coverage of 99.4 percent of all Costa Rican households and a generation from renewable sources above 98 percent.

The 9th International Conference on Renewable Energy, Energy Saving and Energy Education (CIER 2017) drew the participation of about 250 scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, specialists and professionals from about 20 nations.