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rgentinas renewables
programme is well
shielded to ride out
the economic storm battering
the country, claimed the
governments renewable energy
under-secretary.
Argentina seen as one of the
worlds key emerging wind and
solar markets is struggling
with a contracting economy,
falling currency and strikes, but
Sebastian Kind said the global
wind industry should take
comfort from measures put in
place to reassure international
investors in its renewables sector.
Of course the country is
suffering turbulence in terms of
the depreciation of the currency
and so on, said Kind, the
countrys most senior renewableenergy official, in an interview
with Recharge at the Global Wind
Summit.
Its an unfortunate situation.
But the renewables programme
[is] so well shielded out of
Argentinian risk that we are still
on track, even though we are in
this situation.
Kind led the design of the
countrys RenovAr programme,
which has driven procurement
of 6GW of wind and solar since
the current government came to
power in 2015. The programme
features safeguards such as
US-dollar-denominated 20-year
power-purchase agreements,
underwritten by the Argentinian
Treasury, and a $500m World
Bank guarantee.
Vestas turbines
under construction
at the 100MW
Corti wind farm in
Argentina.
Argentine renewables build-out
protected from economic crisis
He claimed the derisking
mechanism of the framework has
been proved by the power prices
achieved under RenovAr, which
have been among the lowest in the
world around $40/MWh at the
last tender round. We obtained
investment-grade-economy
prices although we are not an
investment-grade economy, said
Kind.
The official said he is not
necessarily expecting prices to fall
further in the 400MW MiniRen
tender for renewables projects
of up to 10MW that comprises
the latest round of RenovAr
next month, and is designed to
keep the programme bubbling
while the country addresses
transmission capacity issues.
We got very fast to a very low
[power price range] very quickly.
There is still margin. We can still
squeeze a little bit more out of
that, but we know we cant expect
another 50% of discount in the
tariff.
Andrés Gismondi, Vestas sales
director for Latam South Cone,
said the wind OEM which
is weeks away from opening a
nacelle factory in the country
and has 1.5GW of projects under
execution there remains steady
in a long-term commitment to
the Argentine market.
Hacking kings Alpha-I and Power2U win wind-power hackathon
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development skills.
António Vidigal, chief executive
of EDP Innovation added: We
believe that our industry is
moving from capital intensive to
knowledge intensive, and EDP is
betting on an Open Innovation
Model which allows EDP to
leverage on external talent.
It was also the right place and
time to launch our EDP Open
Data initiative, which puts digital
and domain knowledge together.
We look forward to partnering in
new hackathons.
The teams were challenged with
two tasks over 48 hours during
the Global Wind Summit, with
Siemens Gamesa mentoring work
on blockchain applications for
hybrid systems optimisation and
EDP Renewables mentoring the
predictive maintenance and O&M
optimisation solutions.
Two other entrants, Chlorophyll
and ODS AI, won the €2,000
prize for the best technical
achievement on each challenge,
while InnoEnergy awarded an
In-Kind prize namely, business
coaching services to both
Alpha-I and Ginkgo.
Photography Pampa Energia Recharge
Teams from Alpha-I and
Power2U hacked their way
to €5,000 prizes at the second
edition of the Hack the Wind
energy hackathon, held under a
deal between industry advocacy
body WindEurope and European
sustainable-energy innovation
outfit InnoEnergy.
The decision was announced
by a jury experts in the wind
sector, led by mentor companies
EDPR and Siemens Gamesa, and
including Recharge editor-in-
chief Darius Snieckus.
We believe in the benefit
that can be obtained from open
innovation environments, as
way to generate new ideas on
the challenges of our industry,
said Antonio de la Torre, chief
technology officer of Siemens
Gamesa.
Hack The Wind gave us
deep insights on what crossfunctional teams are to achieve,
combining blockchain knowledge,
data analytics capabilities,
understanding of the energy
domain, and not least, front-end
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