Argentina Energy - 2024

Electricity access

electrification - total population: 100% (2021)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 44.731 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 121,563,940,000 kWh (2020 est.)

exports: 261 million kWh (2020 est.)

imports: 7.802 billion kWh (2020 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 20.74 billion kWh (2020 est.)

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 65.8% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 7.3% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 1% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 6.8% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 17.6% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 1.5% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Nuclear energy

Number of operational nuclear reactors: 3 (2023)

Number of nuclear reactors under construction: 1

Net capacity of operational nuclear reactors: 1.64GW (2023)

Percent of total electricity production: 7.2% (2021)

Percent of total energy produced: 3.6% (2021)

Number of nuclear reactors permanently shut down: 0

Coal

production: 829,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 1.55 million metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 4,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 990,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 500 million metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 690,200 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 680,000 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 59,100 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 11,400 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 2,482,700,000 barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

669,800 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

58,360 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

121,400 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Natural gas

production: 41,194,148,000 cubic meters (2020 est.)

consumption: 49,476,585,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

exports: 691.241 million cubic meters (2019 est.)

imports: 6,865,323,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

proven reserves: 396.464 billion cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

193.205 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 2.122 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 94.208 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 96.875 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

79.083 million Btu/person (2019 est.)