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Wind power accounted for 8% of Argentina’s total installed power generation capacity and 10% of total power generation in 2023.
In April, renewables met 14.8% of the total electricity demand. This percentage dropped to 13.8% in May and to 13% in June, the energy secretariat said, citing data from Argentine wholesale electricity market administrator CAMMESA. Choose your newsletter by Renewables Now. Join for free!
The April-June trimester saw the commissioning of two wind farms in Buenos Aires province, four solar photovoltaic plants in Cordoba and San Juan, and one landfill biogas thermal power plant in Santa Fe. The wind farms are the 27-MW Pampa Energia III and the 18-MW El Mataco III.
The Argentine market is not strange to the shift of oil and gas companies towards the power industry. Different long-standing Argentine oil and gas companies like Tecpetrol, Pan American Energy (PAE) and YPF have been investing in renewable generation projects in the past years.
The solar farms are the 68.11-MW Zonda I, the 31.89-MW Zonda IB, the 17-MW Cura Brochero and the 8-MW Cura Brochero Ampliacion. The biogas power plant brought 3.12 MW. At the end of the second quarter, Argentina had 5,393 MW of installed renewable energy capacity across 202 operational plants.