Everything Solar Forum

"For a country with the abundant solar resources of Argentina, the lack of PV adoption is cause for concern. The north of Argentina experiences high levels of solar radiation and has the capacity to produce electricity and jobs for rural and underserved communities in the country.

Unfortunately, there are several factors limiting the total deployment of renewable energy in Argentina. The outdated transmission network fails to bring energy from production locations to consumption centers. Rural communities in the north are not able to see the job growth and consistent energy access that solar could provide. Lastly, the subsidies provided for fossil fuels help to maintain the stranglehold they have on the energy market.

As of 2019, Argentina's energy mix included 85.81% fossil fuels. This is why it took Argentina until 2020 to finally reach 1000 GWh of electricity generated from PV projects."

Read this article by Otto Gunderson, reporter at CleanTechnica...

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Kat Friedrich
Editor in Chief
American Solar Energy Society
Monona WI
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Its not the lack of technical or interfering geographic factors that limits RE in that country, anymore then it is here in the USA.

There is commonality between the USA and Argentina regarding two points. One, the FFI suppresses RE adoption everywhere around the globe. And two, entities than profit from electricity production only promote it if they get to reap the profit from its sale. SO solar owned by residential or businesses that need electricity for their business are on the crap list. Any production that contributes to the demand destruction of "utility type" producers will be fought.

And until we solve this inherent structure failure globally, we will continue to see the CO2 keep rising and the planet sweltering more and more...

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william fitch
Owner
www.WeAreSolar.com
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