The province of Buenos Aires “is the main one in terms of energy generation in Argentina,” said Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof on Thursday after touring a wind farm owned by the Pampa Energía company in the Coronel Rosales district.
At an event, the company announced that will build another park in the Bahía Blanca region, which will require an investment of more than US$ 500 million and will have an installed capacity of 300 megawatts.
Accompanied by the president of Pampa Energía, Marcelo Mindlin, Kicillof toured the Pampa IV wind farm property located on National Route 3, where 18 wind turbines are being installed.
“I want to thank Pampa and Marcelo (Mindlin), not only for this investment, but not long ago there in the Ensenada area a combined cycle was inaugurated, that it was also to improve the efficiency of already existing plants and that it improves the energy efficiency of our country and our province”said.
According to the governor, “Our province is the main energy company in Argentina” and “without a doubt, we now add the prospect of finding hydrocarbons also offshore, here in our ocean.”
“We are also going to comply with the possibility of extracting solid fuels and also to be, as we are today, the main province in terms of generation,” he said.
Regarding the region, he said that “is tremendously linked to the energy issue” and that originally “to oil and gas with its petrochemical industry, with generation as well, with transportation and now in this innovation that is already a huge reality”.
He also stated that “The history of these mills has its origin in the political decision that was taken during the government of Cristina Kirchner to promote the approval of a law that would accelerate the transformation of the Argentine energy matrix”.
“This is the result of a timely public policy and the technological feat that was carried out in the sector so that clean energy generation costs are competitive,” he added.
In addition, he pointed out that “just as it happened with the development of wind energy, today Vaca Muerta is a reality that was also the result of a political decision: to recover YPF and turn it into a flagship company focused on the needs of our country”.
The expansion of the Wind Farm of #CoronelRosales.
Next to @marianouset and the president of @PampaEnergiaMarcelo Mindlin, we toured the construction of 18 wind turbines that will provide the energy system with a power equivalent to the consumption of 100,000 homes. pic.twitter.com/KYBVEnIB3c
— Axel Kicillof (@Kicillofok) February 9, 2023
The construction of the Néstor Kirchner gas pipeline “It will impact with a greater availability of energy and gas to continue developing this productive region of the province”. “These are the works that happen when there are strategic decisions and state planning,” she said.
“The consequence is a virtuous circle of interaction between the public and private sectors that allows the growth of clean energy, the development of Vaca Muerta and a true energy revolution,” concluded Kicillof, before moving to Bahía Blanca, where he led the delivery of deeds and toured homes.
