New Frontiers

摘要

The inauguration early next year of a Central American electricity grid decades in the making will be a big step forward for regional integration and the delivery of cheaper energy to a corner of the world that badly needs it. The $500 million system includes a transmission line stretching the length of the isthmus and will allow member countries Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras to tap into neighbors' power surpluses, thereby reducing blackouts and insuring a more stable and efficient energy supply for the region's 40 million residents.