ICE To Finance
Trade Of Old
Refrigerator For A More
Energy Efficient New One
Looking to buy a new
refrigerator? Look no
further than ICE whose
objective is to entice
all Costa Ricans with
refrigerators older that
seven years to trade in
for a new one with an
attractive financial
plan.
The Instituto
Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) said
it will finance 90% of
the purchase of a new
refrigerators if they
trade in their old
refrigerators that have
a higher consumption
rate that the newer
units.
Henry Solís, director of
Innovación y Eficiencia
Energética de la CNFL
(an ICE subsidiary) said
that the institution is
considering charging the
payments on the monthly
electrical bill, though
the details of the
financing charges were
not made available,
saying that the
institution is still
working out the details
of the repayment plan.
Solís says that there
are an estimated 200.000
old refrigerators in use
today and that plan that
will possibly begin in
November is to take
those units "off the
streets" in an effort to
reduce energy
consumption.
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