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Costa Rica Electricity Generation Expansion Plan 2016-2035 (Plan de Expansion de la Generacion Electrica) 2017
Costa Rica 2017 In force National
Costa Rica Regulation of liquid biofuels and their mixtures 2017
Costa Rica 2017 In force National
Law approving the "Paris 2015 Agreement". Presidential Law of the Republic 1844/2017.
Colombia 2017 In force National
Public Policy on efficient management and surpluses of small scale self-generation (Decree 348 of 2017)
Colombia 2017 In force National
National Policy for the Integral Management of Solid Waste, CONPES 3874/2016
Colombia 2016 In force National
VII National Energy Plan of Costa Rica 2015-2030
Costa Rica 2015 In force National
Approval for Sectoral Loan for the Development of Geothermal Energy in Guanacaste (Convenio de Cooperación para un préstamo sectorial para el desarrollo de la geotermia en Guanacaste)
Costa Rica 2014 In force National
Costa Rica Regulation on Net-Metering (Technical standard for Planning, Operation and Access to National Grid)
Costa Rica 2014 In force National
Electricity Generation Expansion Plan 2014-2035 (Plan de Expansion de la Generacion Electrica)
Costa Rica 2014 Ended National
Law 1715, regulating the Integration of Non Conventional Renewable Energies to the National Energy System
Colombia 2014 In force National
National Development Plan 2015-2018
Costa Rica 2014 In force National
Law 1665-Statute of the International Renewable Energies Agency (IRENA) (Estatuto de la Agencia Internacional de Energias Renovables)
Colombia 2013 In force National
Energy Strategy of Costa Rica: Towards a New Energy Model (Estrategia Energetica: Hacia un nuevo modelo energetico para nuestro pais)
Costa Rica 2010 Ended National
Programme for Rational and Efficient Use of Energy and Other Forms of Non-Conventional Energy (Resolution 180919)
Colombia 2010 In force National
Concession Framework Law for the Use of Hydraulic Forces for Hydroelectric Generation (Ley Marco de Concesión para el Aprovechamiento de las Fuerzas Hidráulicas para la Generación Hidroeléctrica)
Costa Rica 2009 In force National
Costa Rica Regulation on Biofuels 2009
Costa Rica 2009 Ended National
Flex fuel requirement for new vehicles (Decree 1135)
Colombia 2009 Ended National
Obligatory blends for Ethanol (E8 & E10), and the faculty to increment the blends (Decree 4892)
Colombia 2009 In force National
Costa Rica National Programme on Biofuels (Programa Nacional de Biocombustibles) 2008
Costa Rica 2008 In force National
Policy guideline for the promotion of sustainable biofuels production in Colombia (Conpes 3510)
Colombia 2008 In force National
Costa Rica National Biofuels Commission (Comisión Nacional de Biocombustibles)
Costa Rica 2007 Ended National
Sustainable Urban Planning (Law 1083 of 2006)
Colombia 2006 In force National
Policy to promote the production and commercialization of biodiesel (Law 939)
Colombia 2004 In force National
Standardization Program of Electrical Networks
Colombia 2003 In force National
Tax exemptions and incentives for ethanol producers (Law 788)
Colombia 2002 In force National
Policy to promote the use of ethanol as a biofuel (Law 693)
Colombia 2001 Ended National
Fund for the Electrification of Non-interconnected Zones established (Law 633)
Colombia 2000 Ended National
Regulations on the Efficient Use of Energy and tax incentives
Costa Rica 1994 In force National
General Environmental Law (Ley General Ambiental) - Law 99
Colombia 1993 In force National
Law Authorising Autoproducers (Ley que Autoriza la Generación eléctrica autónoma o paralela)
Costa Rica 1990 In force National

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