Techint builds its first wind farm in the city of gliding

Due to these strange combinations of nature, in the wild heart of the southeast of Buenos Aires, in the city of González Chávez, lies the best place in the world for gliding. That is, it flies without an engine or simply glides thanks to local winds. González Chávez, 450 kilometers from the city of Buenos Aires, is a must for those who practice this sport around the world and have chosen it several times to host the international championships.

Those winds have just blessed another initiative that is rapidly changing the history of the place. Techint builds its first wind farm on the planet there with an investment of 190 million dollars. It will be ready in August 2023. And it will be the ninth largest in the world. It will deliver its energy to the national grid for the equivalent of 50% of all the energy consumed by Techint factories in the country.

In addition to the winds, there is another protagonist and it is Marcelo Santillán, one of those persevering mayors. He calls himself the PJ and he marks the hardships he experienced in a very humble home with his ranch parents. “He was another Argentina,” he says, remembering that he was encouraged towards a promising future. Santillán was a waiter, carpenter and bricklayer in La Plata to become a lawyer. He is back in his native González Chávez and directs his fate to him with 12,000 souls and 400 public employees since 2015. In 2020, in full pandemic, the wind farm project was accompanied by a series of tax incentives at the municipal and provincial level so that the wind is not used only by gliders.

By the way, the city has been on a boil ever since it was chosen for the wind farm. They will employ 600 specially trained workers at the peak of the jobin addition to the engineers and movement involved in the logistics with the construction of 21 kilometers of internal roads.

The wind farm is built in Estancia La Etelvinaof 1,093 hectares and which belonged to the González Chávez family.

the park matters with 24 mills. The horns and the head are of Vesta, number one in that specialty and are brought from Holland. The towers that support them, 130 meters high, are built inside Florencio Varela and Santa Fe.

The district that was born in 1906 was founded on the lands donated by Adolfo Gonzalez Chavez, landowner and politician.

Today it has 385,000 hectares and several owners of its fields are known as the Werthein, Pérez Companc, Fortabat and Carman families.

They produce 540,000 tons of wheat and 220,000 tons of beef. Mayor Santillán now adds the contribution of the wind transformed into energy to that bill.