Argentina is expected to call for expressions of interest (EOI) for deployment of energy storage systems (ESS) in its electricity generation and transmission networks very soon, based on the country''s latest official bulletin issued by the Secretariat of Energy under the Ministry of Economy.
As the country has set a target of achieving 20 percent of renewable energy contribution in its national electricityconsumption by the end of 2025, the bulletin acknowledges the cardinal role of energy storage systems in this regard, whose "progressive integrationis necessary to achieve the objective of a cleaner and more efficient electrical energy matrix".
"The electrical energy storage technology has reached such a development that it represents an opportunity for its integration into the transmissionand generation network, and to incorporate some of its applications to contribute to the supply of demand, optimize dispatch, reduce costs and provide additional services to the operation", it adds.
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CAMMESA, Argentina''swholesale electricity market operator, has been entrusted with the responsibility to come up with the technical requirements and procedures for considering the EOIs in the next 20 days. Interested players will have 120 days to submit their detailed proposals onfinancing, construction and management of ESS in the wholesale electricity market.
Considering that Argentina is the fourth largest producer of lithium in the world in 2022, the bulletin has notedthat those EOIs that integrate the national supply chain into their project (say for lithium-ion basedBESS that use lithium from Argentina)will be of particular interest.So far, the country is dominated by pumped-storage projects.
As reported by BNamericas, the country isinterested in energystorage projects for the main grid, as well astheisolated southern province ofTierra del Fuego.
It is to be noted that Argentina has already floated tenders for solar PV installations with battery storagesystems at microgrid scale via itsrural electrification program ''Permer''.
Tesla has been making more moves into the commercial and utility-scale solar plus energy storage business over the past year. Recent projects like the one on the Island of Kauai and a SolarCity/Tesla Energy project in Connecticut are good examples.
Now we learn that Tesla is looking for similar projects in Argentina as a company executive visited government officials in the country last week.
Bob Rudd, a former VP of Energy Storage at SolarCity and now Director of Energy Storage and Microgrids at Tesla, met with Gorvernor of Salta Province Juan Manuel Urtubey’s Cabinet Chief, Carlos Parodi, and the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Production, Javier Montero.
In a press release, the Gorvernor said that Rudd expressed Tesla’s “interest in investing in renewable energy” in the region and the province’s potential for lithium exploitation.
“Rudd said that Salta is the first place in the country that they visit with intentions to invest, due to the advantages offered by the province, both for its natural conditions and for predictability for investors through the official policy of ensuring legal security for development of productive projects.”
Argentina still gets most of its electricity from fossil fuels and therefore, there are a lot of opportunities to develop solar and energy storage projects, but it’s especially interesting that Tesla chose to visit the Salta province, which has been described as “ground zero” for lithium, an important material for Tesla’s batteries.
Tesla has previously looked in Chile, where there are large lithium deposits, for partnership with local lithium miners, but it’s the first time we hear of Tesla looking in Argentina to source lithium.
Some of the resources needed to make Tesla’s batteries have come to the forefront of the junior mining industry trying to bring online new mining operations. Especially since Tesla announced that it tripled the planned production of the Model 3 to over 100 GWh per year and now plans to start working on 3 to 4 more Gigafactories.
We recently reported on some companies working on increasing the production of some of the main minerals behind Tesla’s batteries: How to invest in the resource boom that Tesla Gigafactory and electric vehicles are creating.
Several of those companies have claims on lithium deposits in Argentina.
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