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Renewable energy is coming to Argentina

Renewable energy is coming to Argentina

Friday May 20, 2016

President Macri from Argentina has announced that he will launch a new energy program that will make use of renewable energy. There will be a public tender that detail which companies offer government services and it will function off of a bidding process. The idea is this: that the new renewable energy sources should provide 8 percent of the national usage of electricity by December 2017. For December 2025, their goal is to increase that number up to 20 percent.

In the announcement, Macri mentioned that they will start to reduce the gas emissions in the country by 2 billion tons of CO2 (more…)