Argentina

TABLE 1. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES

Fossil fuels Nuclear Renewable
Solid Liquid Gas Uranium Hydro** Other renewable***
Total amount in specific units* 444.00 320 916 355 547 11 020 (RAR)
18 990 (IR)
 40.40 2.06
Total amount in exajoules (EJ) 10.04 11.9 11.1 6.98
12.03
 0.61 0.03

TABLE 2. ENERGY STATISTICS

1980 1990 2000 2010 2015 2017* Compound annual growth rate (%)
2000–2017*
Energy consumption [EJ]**
- Total 1.66 1.90 2.56 3.18 3.51 3.67 2.06
- Solids*** 0.03 0.04 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.05 (1.04
- Liquids1 1.04 0.85 0.86 1.07 1.15 1.20 1.67
- Gases2 0.41 0.76 1.37 1.70 1.91 1.98 2.19
- Nuclear 0.04 0.09 0.07 0.10 0.09 0.07 (3.76
- Hydro 0.07 0.08 0.13 0.15 0.15 0.14 (0.74
Other/Renewables3 0.08 0.07 0.09 0.09 0.09 0.10 1.46
Energetic production [EJ]
- Total 1.74 2.13 3.56 3.33 3.07 3.06 (1.21
- Solids*** 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 (14.63
- Liquids 1.06 1.04 1.64 1.27 1.15 1.04 (2.90
- Gases 0.49 0.83 1.62 1.74 1.58 1.64 (0.81
- Nuclear4 0.04 0.09 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
- Hydro 0.07 0.08 0.13 0.15 0.15 0.15 (0.74
Other/Renewables3 0.08 0.07 0.09 0.09 0.09 0.10 1.46
Net import (Import–Export)5 [EJ] 0.19 0.08 (0.61 0.02 0.32 0.33 49.57
Total6 1.93 2.21 2.95 3.35 3.38 0.33 0.17

TABLE 3. INSTALLED CAPACITY, ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION

1980 1990 2000 2010 2015 2017* Compound annual growth rate (%)
2010–2017*
Capacity of electric power station (GW(e)) G/N
- Thermal N 8.01 9.48 15.75 21.78 25.61 22.90 0.72
- Nuclear1 N 0.37 1.01 1.01 1.01 1.76 1.76 0.96
- Hydro N 3.63 6.61 9.60 10.05 10.06 10.75 8.06
- Wind N 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.03 0.22 0.23 33.50
Other/Renewable2 N 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.53 — 
- Total N 12.00 17.11 26.35 32.88 37.66 36.15 1.36
Electricity production (TWh) G/N
- Thermal G 22.22 25.58 53.93 84.90 102.38 88.53 0.60
- Nuclear3 G 2.34 7.28 6.18 7.17 7.04 5.72 2.24
- Hydro G 15.14 18.14 28.84 33.90 34.82 39.58 (3.19
- Wind G 0.00 0.00 0.03 0.03 0.60 0.62 53.98
Other/Renewable2 G 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 2.02 — 
- Total** G 39.71 51.00 88.98 125.99 144.86 136.47 1.15
Total Electricity Consumption (TWh) 33.49 40.53 75.28 111.87 133.30 129.02 2.06

TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

1980 1990 2000 2010 2015 2017*
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita)1 65.34 63.50 75.75 86.79 82.06 79.34
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh/capita)2 1242.93 1316.04 2127.46 2858.84 3108.9 3022.42
Electricity production/Energy production (%)3 7.49 7.67 8.28 12.67 16.62 17.14
Nuclear/total electricity (%)4 5.89 14.76 6.94 5.69 5.04 3.92
Ratio of external dependency (%)** 4 5.72 (3.24 (33.87 (2.32 14.05 13.35

TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31 DECEMBER 2018

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
2018
ATUCHA-1 PHWR 340 Operational NASA SIEMENS 1968-06-01 1974-01-13 1974-03-19 1974-06-24 76.3
ATUCHA-2 PHWR 693 Operational NASA SIEMENS 1981-07-14 2014-06-03 2014-06-25 2016-05-26 68.8
EMBALSE PHWR 600 Operational NASA AECL 1974-04-01 1983-03-13 1983-04-25 1984-01-20 0.0
CAREM25 PWR 25 Under Construction CNEA CNEA 2014-02-08
Data source: IAEA - Power Reactor Information System (PRIS).
Note: Table 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 6. STATUS OF DECOMMISSIONING PROCESS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

Reactor unit Shutdown reason Decommission strategy Current decommission phase Current fuel management phase Decommission licence Licence termination year

TABLE 7. PLANNED NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

Reactor unit/Project name Owner Type Capacity in MW(e) Expected construction start year Expected commercial year
CAREM 25 CNEA PWR 32 2014 (under construction) 2023 (estimated)
IV NPP NA-SA PWR 1200 2020 (estimated) 2028 (estimated)