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Argentina publishes details of 500 MW battery tender

Argentina’s AlmaGBA tender for the Buenos Aires metro area will pay a fixed $10/MW of electricity supplied, with storage capacity bids capped at $15,000/MW per month.

Challenges of dismantling abandoned wind and solar farms

Researchers studying decommissioned wind and solar farms in Italy, Spain, Venezuela, and Argentina have found that weak regulations risk leaving more abandoned assets in their wake.

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Argentina launches 500 MW storage auction

The Argentinean authorities plan to install the new storage capacity in critical nodes of the metropolitan area of ​​Buenos Aires, with an estimated investment of $500 million and an execution period of between 12 and 18 months.

Argentina installs 307 MW of solar in 2024

Argentina installed 307 MW of solar in 2024, bringing its total PV capacity to 1.67 GW by year-end, according to energy market operator Cammesa.

Construction begins on 200 MW solar project in Argentina

Verano Energy, a renewables developer headquartered in Chile, has started building a 200 MW solar project in western Argentina. The installation is due for completion and connection before the end of 2025.

Argentina inaugurates first commercial lithium hydroxide production plant

Part of mining company POSCO Argentina’s Sal de Oro integral lithium project, the plant was inaugurated at the General Güemes Industrial Park in the city of Salta. It is estimated to produce 25,000 tons of lithium hydroxide per year.

YPF Luz to begin working on 305 MW of solar in Argentina

YPF Luz says it is ready to start building a 305 MW solar project in Mendoza, Argentina, with an initial phase of 200 MW.

Argentina raises self-consumption limit under net metering to 12 MW

Argentina’s Secretariat of Energy has increased the self-consumption limit under net metering from 2 MW to 12 MW to expand the country’s renewable energy capacity.

New ways to feed the world’s lithium habit

Amid significant environmental concern about the impact of more widespread lithium mining, various methods of extracting the battery material from brine could offer a cleaner solution – and reignite a historic Cornish industry.

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PV installation triggers border dispute between Chile and Argentina

Chilean President Gabriel Boric complained that the solar array installed on a military base in Argentine Patagonia were located three meters inside Chilean territory. “They must remove those solar panels as soon as possible or we are going to do it,” he warned. The Argentine government recognized the error.

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