Chile exported renewable energy to Argentina for the first time and the exchange is reactivated

This weekend the first export of renewable energy from Chile to Argentina took place. It was through the Andes interconnection line, which was reactivated weeks ago. The company in charge of this transmission, AES Andes, communicated it.

The first shipment of renewable energy from Chile to Argentina was this Saturday for 75 megawatts and then on Sunday for 70 mw. In the days prior to the first export of renewables, the company carried out various vacuum energization and energy injection tests from the Andes substation in Chile to the Puna substation in Argentina, which were approved by the National Electricity Coordinator (CEN).

The agreement announced weeks ago, in which officials from both countries participated, establishes that Chile will be able to export energy during the day for up to 80 MW and will be able to import up to 200 MW at night. The electrical systems will not operate synchronized, but generation components will be assigned in an electrically isolated manner.

From AES they said that the electrical exchange operates through the InterAndes line of the Company. It consists of a 345 kV transmission line that stretches 409km between the Andes substation in Chile and the Cobos substation in Argentina.

According to the company, “the approved modality consists of economic opportunity exchanges, which will be interruptible in the event that the network operators of the respective countries consider it necessary.”

This connection, before 2017, has worked to send energy from Chile to Argentina and in other times from Argentina to Chile, but it never worked as a daily exchange between both countries as it began to work this weekend.

With information from Bloomberg Línea

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