Renewables, BESS, grid work: Argentina awards projects priority dispatch capacity

Argentina’s wholesale power market administrator Cammesa awarded 515MW of priority dispatch capacity in a process corresponding to the third quarter of 2025.

The capacity is distributed across 10 projects involving investment in solar PV, wind, energy storage and associated grid infrastructure.

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The winners are DQD Energy, Vientos del Atlántico I, Industrias Juan F. Secco, Helios, Solar Energy, Genneia and ARN Tech Partner.

Cammesa assigns capacity to projects aiming to participate in the MATER term market, where companies such as factories contract clean energy through corporate power purchase agreements.

Six projects — five solar PV and one wind — were awarded a combined 170MW of dispatch capacity and are due online in 3Q27.

An additional 225MW was granted to three projects involving associated grid expansion work, a category introduced under a 2023 resolution. Two of the projects, including Catamarca II, involve solar PV plants paired with 60MW, six-hour battery storage systems; the third is a solar PV project with grid infrastructure. Cammesa has also granted 120MW of capacity associated with a solar park with a linked grid expansion component greenlit in a process corresponding to 4Q24. The four are due to enter service in 2030.

Generation projects listed are the following: La Leonesa, Puente Libertad, San Carlos Centro — Ampliación, El Sol de Formosa, El Sol de Clorinda, Catamarca II, Mendoza Sur, Sol del Valle and Sierras Renovables I, II, III (all solar PV) and Vientos del Atlántico — Fase II (wind)

Details can be found in the Documents box at the top of the page.

(The original version of this content was written in English)