Just 65% of Nicaragua's population has access to electricity, but the government wants to increase that to 85% by 2014. Although it was once the most-developed country in Central America — until an earthquake and a revolution in the 1970s, Nicaragua had little in the way of modern energy infrastructure until recently.
Now, with a growing demand for power but a lack of indigenous fossil fuels, renewables development, particularly geothermal, is seen as the most cost-effective solution.
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