LATIN AMERICA electricity to rural communities . Both facilities generate a 41MW output combined . Coopesantos owns 18.06 % ( 7.5MW ) of total output .
Second is Los Santos Wind Farm . This facility opened in 2011 and counts with 15 turbines , for a nameplate capacity of 12.75MW . Los Santos was certified as a Clean Development Mechanism ( CDM ) by the United Nations Organization ( UNO ).
The final source is a new solar plant in the company headquarters at San Marcos de Tarrazú , working since 2016 and a nameplate capacity of 100KW . Eighty new panels are to be deployed at San Marcos during 2018 , and there are plans to install solar plants in the cooperative ’ s branches .
Only a third of the power supplying the Coopesantos grid is obtained from other sources , namely the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity ( ICE ).
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