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The Port of Bahía Blanca is moving forward in the implementation of new technologies
The Port of Bahía Blanca, together with UTN and CONICET, presented a project based on the initiative promoted by the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation for the development of renewable energies. The Argentine Sectoral Fund (FONARSEC) awarded more than 6 million pesos to the technological institutions in the recent call for Strategic Projects for the Energy Transition by the R&D+i Agency.
The proposed design, together with scientific institutions, responded to the call from the Ministry and the Agency to promote the structural change of the national energy system from a regime centered on hydrocarbons to the incremental incorporation of technologies based on renewable resources and low greenhouse gas emissions.
The selected project proposes the design and implementation of a small-scale pendulum wave energy collector for application in navigation buoys in the estuary of Bahía Blanca. It is a converter of sea wave energy into electrical energy.
The objective is to install a single small-scale collector prototype on top of a buoy in the Bahía Blanca estuary. The aim is to use the generated energy to power measurement sensors, additional lighting, or store it for convenient later use. The implementation is a small-scale demonstration test of this technology, as these pendulum converters also have potential for large-scale applications, which is the long-term goal.
It is worth noting that it is one of the two projects selected for the development of wave energy in the country that will be tested in the Argentine Sea.
The Port of Bahía Blanca thus reaffirms its commitment to environmental care, in a sustainable manner, incorporating innovation for the preservation of the estuary.