An explosion at around 7:00pm on a Wednesday evening at the Porvenir de Desamparados electrical substation on the south side of San Jose, Costa Rica, triggered a fire inside the facility. The event knocked out power to an estimated 100,000 people for more...
Energy incidents: Costa Rica
Incidents recorded in Costa Rica across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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