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What happens after your country runs on 99 percent renewable electricity?

Costa Rica runs almost entirely on renewables, but climate change poses new risks.

Climate change poses new risks to the power grid, and Costa Rica has a lot of work left to do to get more solar and wind farms online. Marco Jiménez Chavez, an engineer who works on generation expansion planning at the state-run electricity utility Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE). The Verge explored those questions on the ground in Costa Rica, with support from the International Center for Journalists and local media organization Punto y Aparte, and found hard-learned lessons that cross borders.

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