Nicaragua sets ambitious renewable energy goal, seeks to limit foreign oil dependency

Published on Feb 08 2012 // environmental sustainability, fossil fuel
Nicaragua sets ambitious renewable energy goal, seeks to limit foreign oil dependency
Since 2007, Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista government have struggled to stabilize that country’s energy market. Nicaragua now considers a diverse renewable energy portfolio–including wind, hydropower and geothermal–to be a “linchpin in the Sandinistas’...