Argentina’s electricity sector is at a crossroads as it prepares for an energy transition from heavy reliance on thermal energy to increasing the supply of clean energy.
The broad objective is to ensure that the future Argentine productive structure is inclusive, dynamic, stable, federal, sovereign and environmentally sustainable. The plan entails significant investments for increasing renewable energy-based generation capacity, electricity transmission works and the gas pipeline network, among others.
The guidelines call for structural change in the systems of supply and use of energy. The broad objective is to ensure that the future Argentine productive structure is inclusive, dynamic, stable, federal, sovereign and environmentally sustainable.
The gas-prone deep offshore would open a new chapter in Argentina’s century-old hydrocarbons industry, one that proponents say would be more efficient and less carbon-intensive, at the production stage, compared with the country’s mature onshore and shallow-water operations.
The 500 kV line, spanning 358 km, will connect Plomer on the outskirts of the capital Buenos Aires with Vivoratá to the southeast, a town close to the coastal city of Mar del Plata. Another 37-km line will connect Plomer with Ezeiza, a district in Buenos Aires.
In a bid to outline the country’s key energy goals and guidelines to achieve them, in October 2021, Argentina’s Ministry of Economy approved the ‘Guidelines for an Energy Transition Plan to 2030’, through Resolution 1036/2021. The guidelines call for structural change in the systems of supply and use of energy.