Chinese company to help build 2 dams in Argentina
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The construction of two hydroelectric dams in Argentina’s Patagonia region has been awarded to a consortium of domestic and Chinese firms.
Local Electroingenieria e Hidrocuyo and China-based Gezhouba Group Co secured the deal, Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner said.
Those who lost out include Alstom (France), Odebrecht (Brazil), Isolux (Spain), Sinohydro (China) and Hyundai (South Korea).
The dams, to be built on the Santa Cruz river, will have a production capacity of 1.74 megawatts, or 4.7 percent of national electric production.
Kirchner said the new construction would mean that the Santa Cruz river would have the second-largest dam after Yacyreta, a dam located on the Parana river and jointly administered by Argentina and Paraguay.
Argentina relies heavily on the Yacyreta dam, which covers 22 percent of the country’s electricity needs.
The Santa Cruz river, which extends some 385 kilometers, originates in the Andes and flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
Argentine officials say construction, to begin in December, will take five years and create 5,000 jobs.
The two new dams will be named after former governors of Santa Cruz state — Jorge Cepernic and Nestor Kirchner, who was president from 2003 to 2007.
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