, Spanish for ‘regenerate’. The scheme aims to facilitate the development of clean energy plants and storage systems through periodic public tenders, allowing companies to pitch their energy generation projects, as well as connect them to the national grid, providing participating companies with tax exemptions and the ability to take part in carbon credit markets.
The launch of the RenovAr plan meant the plant would be able to contribute energy to the wholesale market, and swayed Ligato’s investment decision. In addition, the plant used a heat recovery system to maintain the biodigesters in optimal temperature without the need for external heat production, making the biogas power plant the first of its kind in Latin America. “To me this is like Disney World,” says Palena, the chemical engineer in charge of supervising every part of the process that feeds the four biodigesters.