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Arctech Empowers Green Belt and Road in Argentina With Advanced Solar Tracking Solution

Arctech finished the shipment of SkyLine II, a 1P single-axis solar tracker for the Sierras de Ullum solar farm project in Argentina, the company’s first utility-scale project utilizing SkyLine II in the country.

November 17, 2022. By News Bureau

As a ground-mounted solar PV power project with a combined capacity of 82 MW, the Sierras de Ullum Solar PV Park is planned over 100 hectares in San Juan, Argentina, the western part of the country.

The project is expected to bring an investment of over USD 60 million and new jobs to the region. The Sierras de Ullum solar farm is expected to supply enough clean energy to power 50,000 households.

The project is equipped with SkyLine II single axle tracker, the world’s first 1P single-axis tracker equipped with a pentagonal torque tube design and synchronous multi-point drive mechanism.

The construction of Sierras de Ullum will directly employ more than 400 people and will have 150,000 state-of-the-art bidirectional solar panels that receive direct energy from the sun and also absorb reflections from the ground. The generation is growing by 6%.

As pointed out in a recent NRDC report, based on BRI countries’ targets for renewable energy, the projected installed capacity of renewable energy for 38 countries in BRI could reach 644 GW from 2020-2030, and total investment in wind and solar power could reach $644 billion.

However, currently, renewable energy cooperation in BRI countries faces myriad challenges, including financing difficulties, low electricity pricing, and inadequate policy support, all of which have become major obstacles to BRI's renewable energy development.

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