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Argentina: Growth in Electricity Transmission Networks 2022 [free access]

At the end of 2021, the country’s transmission network comprised about 35,727 km of transmission lines between the 132 kV AC and 500 kV voltage levels. Since 2016, transmission line length has witnessed a CAGR of 1.06 per cent.

Argentina’s transformation capacity has increased at a CAGR of 4.70 per cent since 2016 and stood at 51,938 MVA by the end of 2021. The number of substations increased to 158 in 2021 from 142 in 2016.

Table 1: Growth in Argentina’s transmission line network (km)

Note: 2021 data is estimated on the basis of the assumption of no capacity addition at the 500 kV and 230/220 kV levels, and on the basis of CAGR during 2011-20 at 132/138 kV levels.

Source: CAMMESA; Global Transmission Research

 Figure 1: Growth in Argentina’s transformer capacity (MVA)

Note: 2021 data is estimated based on assumption of no capacity addition at the high voltage level, and based on CAGR during 2011-20 at the distribution level.  Source: CAMMESA; Global Transmission Research