The project functions under Córdoba’s Community Distributed Generation scheme, allowing Grupo Dinosaurio to offset electricity consumption across its various business units while feeding excess generation into the EPEC-administered provincial network. EPEC president Claudio Puértolas emphasized the strategic value of solar injection at this northern location, where the distribution network extends radially from Córdoba city and previously registered voltage instability during high-demand periods. The facility provides a stabilization point for a system that historically lacked local generation capacity.
Construction involved approximately 700 kilometers of underground cabling and generated around 200 jobs, predominantly filled by workers from northern provincial localities. The $30 million investment reflects growing corporate appetite for industrial self-consumption models that reduce grid exposure while monetizing surplus capacity through provincial offtake.
The Dinosaurio commissioning follows Córdoba’s April 2026 launch of an 8 MWp solar facility at Polo Industrial Córdoba, developed by 360Energy and Stellantis with estimated annual generation of 16.7 GWh. The province is advancing additional community-scale projects including the Marcos Juárez park, planned with an initial 100 kW phase and expansion potential to 1 MW. Córdoba’s distributed generation framework allows municipalities, cooperatives and private developers to inject renewable capacity into the provincial grid under net-metering or virtual net-metering arrangements, accelerating deployment without requiring large-scale transmission upgrades or federal market participation.
This article was curated and published as part of our South American energy market coverage.
