Argentina

TABLE 3. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES

Available Estimated Sources of Energy
Fossil Fuels Nuclear Renewable
Solid Liquid Gas Uranium Hydro** Other renewable***
Total amount in specific units* 444 370 374 328 260 18 531 40 400 2 055
Total amount in Exajoule (EJ) 10.04 13.72 11.55 11.74 0.61 0.03

TABLE 4. ENERGY STATISTICS (EXA-JOULE [EJ])

1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2013* Average Annual Growth Rate (%)
2000 to 2013
Energy Consumption (1)
- Subtotal 1.29 1.73 1.87 2.50 3.22 3.59 3.77
- Solids (2) 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.04 0.05 10.80
- Liquids (3) 0.92 1.06 0.82 0.92 1.23 1.18 -1.37
- Gas (4) 0.24 0.46 0.77 1.26 1.58 1.98 7.64
- Nuclear 0.00 0.04 0.09 0.07 0.10 0.08 -6.86
- Hydro water 0.01 0.07 0.08 0.13 0.15 0.15 0.41
- Other Renewable (5) 0.09 0.08 0.07 0.09 0.12 0.16 9.70
Energetic Production (6)          
- Subtotal 1.24 1.75 2.07 3.43 3.24 3.19 -0.59
- Solids 0.02 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.00 8.78
- Liquids 0.84 1.06 1.04 1.66 1.31 1.20 -2.79
- Gas 0.28 0.50 0.78 1.47 1.61 1.62 0.26
- Nuclear (7) 0.00 0.04 0.09 0.07 0.00 0.00 -
- Hydro water 0.01 0.07 0.08 0.13 0.15 0.15 0.40
- Other Renewable 0.09 0.08 0.07 0.09 0.17 0.21 6.30
Net Import (Import - Export) 0.08 0.20 0.09 -0.68 0.10 0.34 49.03
- Total 1.33 1.95 2.15 2.75 3.35 3.53 1.75

TABLE 5. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION AND CAPACITY

Average rate of annual growth (%)
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2013* 2010 to 2013
Capacity of electric power station (GWe)  
- Thermal 6.08 8.01 9.48 15.75 21.78 23.90 3.14
- Hydro 0.61 3.63 6.61 9.60 10.05 10.05 0.01
- Nuclear 0.00 0.37 1.01 1.01 1.01 1.01 0.17
- Wind 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.03 0.19 85.66
- Geothermal 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
- Other renewable 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 **
- Total 6.69 12.00 17.11 26.35 32.88 35.16 2.26
Electricity production (TW.h)  
- Thermal 20.17 22.22 25.58 53.93 84.90 99.64 5.48
- Hydro 1.55 15.14 18.14 28.84 33.90 33.42 -0.47
- Nuclear 0.00 2.34 7.28 6.18 7.17 6.21 -4.69
- Wind 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.03 0.03 0.46 149.05
- Geothermal 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
- Other renewable 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.02 **
- Total (1) 21.73 39.71 51.00 88.98 125.99 139.75 3.51
Total Electricity Consumption (TWh) 18.72 33.49 40.53 75.28 111.87 124.13 3.53

TABLE 6. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2013*
Energy Consumption per capita (GJ/cápita) (1) 54.20 61.79 57.29 68.10 80.95 84.84
Electricity Consumption per capita ( (kWh/cápita) (2) 745.73 1170.73 1238.24 2026.10 2810.55 2834.43
Electric/Energetic Production (%) (3) 6.29 8.16 8.59 9.34 13.94 15.75
Nuclear/Total Electricity (%) 0.00 5.89 14.76 6.94 5.71 4.45
External Dependence Rate (%) (4) 8.22 8.50 -4.82 -36.28 1.84 15.53

TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31 DECEMBER 2015

Reactor Unit Type Net
Capacity
[MW(e)]
Status Operator Reactor
Supplier
Construction
Date
First
Criticality
Date
First Grid
Date
Commercial
Date
Shutdown
Date
UCF
for
2015
ATUCHA-1 PHWR 340 Operational NASA SIEMENS 1968-06-01 1974-01-13 1974-03-19 1974-06-24 66.0
ATUCHA-2 PHWR 692 Operational NASA SIEMENS 1981-07-14 2014-06-03 2014-06-27 0.0
EMBALSE PHWR 600 Operational NASA AECL 1974-04-01 1983-03-13 1983-04-25 1984-01-20 99.8
CAREM25 PWR 25 Under Construction CNEA CNEA 2014-02-08
Data source: IAEA - Power Reactor Information System (PRIS).
Note: Table 7 is completely generated from PRIS data to reflect the latest available information and may be more up to date than the text of the report.

TABLE 8. PLANNED NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS.

Station/Project Name Type Capacity (MW) Expected Construction Start Year Expected Commercial Year
CAREM-25  PWR 27 2014 2018
CAREM-150  PWR - - 2020
IV Power Plant PHWR  700 2016 2022
V Power Plant  PWR 1000 2019 2024