Shallow Geothermal Energy Resources and Thermal Impacts in Buenos Aires City, Argentina

MAR ALCARAZ; LUIS VIVES

Congress on Research, Development, and Innovation in Renewable Energies. Selected Papers from CIDiER 2022

Springer

Año: 2023; p. 107 - 121

Improving the quality of life inherently entails an increase in the capacity to con- sume goods and services, including the demand for energy. This fact is verified each year in different regions of Argentina, particularly in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), where the current energy supply infrastructures are not suf- ficient to satisfy this demand [1]. The implementation of renewable energies (RES) is a challenge in Latin American countries [2–4], particularly in Argentina, where the conventional sources of energy are predominant [5] and the economic and social situation is reticent to changes [6]. According to the official statistics of CABA,1the consumption of electricity in 2021 was 10.3 GW. It has been continuously growing since 1996.