Argentina raises cap on renewable self-consumption to 12 MW

Argentina’s energy secretariat said on Tuesday that a new government resolution has increased the maximum capacity limit for renewable energy self-consumption to 12 MW from 2 MW.

Homes, buildings, industries, and small and medium-sized enterprises that currently self-supply with renewables can now increase the amount of power they can generate, and within these limits, the users will be able to inject their surplus electricity equivalent to their category's volume, the energy secretariat said.

The Resolution No. 235/24 establishes three categories of prosumers -- individual generators, community generators and virtual community generators. These categories are then subdivided based on the installed capacity of the distributed generation (DG) equipment they connect to the grid:

-- small prosumers: users with DG equipment of up 3 kW, connected to the grid at low voltage;

-- medium prosumers: users with DG systems ranging between 3 kW and 300 kW, connected to the grid at low and medium voltage;

-- large prosumers: users with DG systems ranging from 300 kW to 12 MW, connected to the distribution network at low and medium voltage.

With this resolution, Argentina’s government aims to encourage small-scale renewable projects to be connected to the distribution grid in order to mitigate the effects of 20 years of disinvestment in the electricity transmission system, the energy secretariat said.

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