Breaking new ground

Central America’s solar boom: Central American nations have emerged from obscurity to a leading role in the deployment and integration of large amounts of renewable energy. But the Energy Transition in this region is just beginning.

By

Blanca Díaz López, Christian Roselund

21 Feb 2017

| Grupo Ortiz

Central America is a region composed of countries very unlike the Western nations that have deployed large volumes of renewable energy to date. Germany, Japan and other affluent, industrialized nations are typically associated with renewables, not developing nations in the Global South.However, the nation with the highest portion of solar generation in its electricity mix …

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