WIND GENERATORS
FOR REMOTE AREAS

ENERGY WHERE THE GRID
DOESN'T REACH

Mining and oil & gas operations in remote areas of Argentina — the San Juan mountain range, Patagonian plateaus, the Vaca Muerta block, NOA highlands — face a permanent energy challenge: the electrical grid doesn't reach, and diesel generators are costly to operate and maintain logistically.

Diesel involves a chain of costs that accumulates quickly: fuel price, transport to the site (often via mountain roads or gravel roads), on-site storage, generator maintenance, spill risk and waste management. At destinations more than 600 km from the nearest city, this operational cost can represent a significant fraction of the total camp budget.

Wind generators allow complementing or replacing diesel generation, reducing operational costs, lowering the project's carbon footprint and simplifying supply logistics. In Argentina, with areas of exceptional wind resources like Patagonia and the Andean mountains, wind energy is a technically solid and economically justified alternative.

Applications are varied: camp and dormitory lighting, USB/220V charging for work equipment and habitability, feeding environmental monitoring equipment, security sensors, dataloggers and satellite communication systems. All these loads can be covered by wind turbines between 1 kW and 10+ kW, alone or in combination with solar panels.

Wind systems offer an additional advantage: unlike solar panels, which only generate during the day and depend on irradiation, wind turbines operate at night and on cloudy days. In areas like Vaca Muerta or the San Juan foothills, where nighttime winds are frequent and sustained, this represents significantly superior energy availability.

Our wind generator line ranges from small units for monitoring stations to higher-power systems for camps of dozens of people, with the option of integrating battery storage to guarantee energy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

ARGENTINA: A COUNTRY
OF WIND

Argentina has one of the world's most important wind resources. The Andes Mountains generate constant winds of 5 to 15 m/s at altitudes above 2,000 m above sea level, precisely where the country's main mining operations are located. Projects like Veladero, Los Azules and Josemaría-Vicuña operate in areas where wind is an abundant and continuous resource.

Argentine Patagonia — where Vaca Muerta and numerous oil & gas operations are located — records average winds of 8 to 12 m/s throughout the year, values that make wind generation a technically and economically superior alternative to diesel. In provinces like Chubut, Santa Cruz and Neuquén, wind speed is so predictable that generation models can be estimated with high precision.

The NOA — Salta, Jujuy, northern Mendoza — also has wind year-round, especially at high altitudes. The combination of intense solar radiation and wind resources makes hybrid systems especially effective in these regions.