For the purposes of this Act, autonomous or parallel generation is defined as the energy produced by limited-capacity power plants, belonging to private companies or cooperatives that can be integrated into the national electrical system.
The electrical energy generated from the processing of municipal solid waste shall be exempt from the provisions of this Act and may be purchased by the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, ICE) or the National Power and Light Company (Compañía Nacional de Fuerza y Luz, CNFL), in accordance with the rates approved by the National Electricity Service (Servicio Nacional de Electricidad, SNE)(*).
(Thus amended by Article 2 of Act No. 7508 of May 9, 1995) (*)(Note from Sinalevi: By section 1 of the Act of the Regulatory Authority for Public Services (Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos, ARESEP), No. 7593 of August 9, 1996, the National Electricity Service was transformed into an autonomous institution, called the "Regulatory Authority for Public Services")