Comments on: Despite high cost, Costa Rica’s electrical service is tops in the region

By: Aspensam

Aspensam — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 03:17:00 +0000

ICE is one of the most hated organization in the country. It continues to build new office buildings, buy new cars, and add staffing because it has the ability to fleece the country. Its service is unreliable and expensive.

By: Luis Diego Campos

Luis Diego Campos — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:33:00 +0000

I wonder how you read the story during a power outrage.

By: Frank Castle

Frank Castle — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:07:00 +0000

My mother lives in the mountains above San Jose. Some of the power problems result from the thunderstorms that are quite common during the rainy season. Lightening and power transformers on poles don’t really get along well. I live in Virginia and we experience the same problem during severe thunderstorms here too. So, if you have thunderstorms in your area, unplug your valuable electronics like my mother does and they won’t get fried.

By: El Torito

El Torito — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:10:00 +0000

Thanks for our morning laugh. We were reading this story during another extended power outage!

By: Chris Thomas

Chris Thomas — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 21:04:00 +0000

Who in the heck comes up with this crap, electric goes out all the time, and if you call them to repair it they take a long time to do it. They also only have to provide electric to 4.5 million people other country have alot more population.

By: John Dungan

John Dungan — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 16:00:00 +0000

Wow! If the reliability is so good in Costa Rica, then it must be really, really bad in the rest of Latin America. Not only did we find it to be extremely expensive and unreliable, but it was downright murder on our electrical and electronic devices. And, despite spikes which fried almost all of our electrical devices, ICE refused to accept responsibility for their poor performance. It was so bad that our grounding strap on a new (less than two years old) circuit breaker box had to be replaced at one point!