Argentina’s government has awarded contracts as part of its Alma SADI tender, selecting 20 storage projects led by 5 companies and totalling 700 MW for a cumulative investment of USD700m. DQD Energy won 8 projects, GENNEIA 7 projects, 360 Energy Solar 3 projects, ALUAR and INTERMEPRO one project each. The projects will be distributed across the Buenos Aires region (185 MW), NOA (150 MW), NEA Chaco-Formosa (161.5 MW), NEA Misiones-Corrientes (50 MW), Litoral Entre Ríos (50 MW), Litoral Santa Fe (36 MW) and Pampa (68 MW). The tender was launched in March 2026 and aimed to award 700 MW of battery energy storage capacity with at least four hours of availability across critical nodes of the Argentine Interconnection System (SADI). It had received 232 qualified bids from 37 national and international companies, totalling 8.2 GW.
The tender forms part of a broader plan launched in 2024 to ease pressure on the electricity system, reduce outages and improve service quality after two decades of insufficient investment to match demand growth. A similar tender, the AlmaGBA, had awarded in September 2025 ten BESS projects (713 MW) within the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.
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