Argentina: Total Eren commissions 97.2 MW "Vientos los Hércules" wind farm (March 2021)

Vientos Los Hércules is Total Eren’s biggest wind farm to enter into operation in Latin America. It will produce approximatively 400 GWh per year – enough to meet the energy needs of about 110,000 households – and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 200,000 tonnes annually. The Government of Argentina awarded this project to Total Eren in October 2016, following the first round of the “RenovAr” call for tenders. Launched in May 2016, this competitive tender process aimed to diversify the national electricity mix while lowering energy generation cost. Total Eren was one of the first European companies to successfully enter the country’s renewable energy market at the time. In December 2018, Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (“Mitsui”) – one of Japan’s largest global trading and investment companies – acquired a 34% stake in the project through MIT Argentina Generation Holding Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsui.