El Quemado Solar Park and Annexes — photovoltaic generation (Luz del Campo SA / YPF Luz)
The first project to enter the RIGI: a 305 MW photovoltaic solar park (31.4% capacity factor) in Jocolí (Las Heras, Mendoza), developed by Luz del Campo SA (YPF Luz + EMESA). It is built in two stages; the first installs 200 MW over 350 ha with bifacial panels. It marks the debut of the regime and of one of the few RIGI investments in Mendoza.
How to supply it
what we have for a supplier, and how to request it
What we have on this project for a supplier
Who decides the purchase, who you invoice and where a new supplier registers.
Which lines each phase buys and when the window opens for each one.
Which they are, why it will need them and who could provide them.
Who they are, what each one does and how to sell to them.
All of this is surveyed and verified against its source. Crossed with what you sell —which of them your products suit, how to reach it and when— it is in your company report. Request the report
We cross what you manufacture or do against the 2 phases of this project and tell you which ones you fit into and when each one buys. Two pages, with the evidence behind them.
Where my company can get inThe project
what it is, the route, the owners, the works and the contractors
Who owns it
Luz del Campo S.A. (single-project vehicle, CUIT 30-71765521-0), a company 100 % controlled by YPF Energía Eléctrica S.A. (YPF Luz) verif Jul 13, 2026 ↗
The works, milestone by milestone
The park obtains commercial authorisation for its final 105 MW and reaches full commercial operation of all 305 MW.
Mendoza’s governor, YPF’s chairman and the Chief of Staff inaugurate the park, which ended up with 305 MW of total installed capacity.
The ENRE publicises the access and expansion request for stage III, 105 additional MW: one 220 kV bay, a third 125 MVA transformer, a third 33 kV bus and its reactor.
CAMMESA authorises commercial operation of an additional 100 MW.
CAMMESA authorises the start of commercial operation of up to 100 MW. It is the first RIGI project to reach commercial operation.
The ENRE publicises the access request and the application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to build the El Quemado 220/33 kV substation, filed by Distrocuyo at Luz del Campo's request, to connect 200 MW.
The Ministry of Economy approves the accession through Resolución 1/2025: it is the first project approved under the RIGI in the country.
Luz del Campo S.A. files its application to join the RIGI.
The province announces that construction of the first stage starts in October 2024, with more than 350 people at peak and an 18-month schedule.
Mendoza's Official Gazette publishes Ley 9567, by which the Province joins the RIGI. Passed on August 13, 2024, it has three articles and sets no conditions on the companies that join.
YPF Energía Eléctrica's board approves construction of El Quemado's first phase through its subsidiary Luz del Campo S.A., with 305 MW of installed capacity and an estimated investment of USD 210 million.
What it leaves in Mendoza
jobs, works, taxes, promises and the outlook
How many jobs it creates
More than 350 people at peak construction, with 87 % local labour. prob May 15, 2026 ↗
The works that stay behind
The infrastructure that stays standing once the works end, with its size and its source.
El Quemado 220/33 kV substation, with gas-insulated technology
PowerCuyo's transmission system. The substation is a new node on the 220 kV trunk line linking Cruz de Piedra with San Juan, and it remains under the jurisdiction and operation of Distrocuyo, the regulated transmission company: it is not a private installation of the park. Any generator that from now on wants to connect to that corridor has a connection point that did not exist before.
Listed piece by piece in article 1 of Resolución ENRE 498/2025, which publicises the request for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for its construction.
Sectioning of the 220 kV Cruz de Piedra – San Juan high-voltage line
PowerThe electricity corridor between Mendoza and San Juan. It is a permanent change to infrastructure that already existed and does not belong to the project: the route is left with an intermediate node, which is what enables injection and also what changes the protection and switching scheme of the whole section.
Verbatim from subsection b) of article 1 of Resolución ENRE 498/2025: «Seccionamiento de la línea LAT 220 kV Cruz de Piedra - San Juan para interconectar la nueva ET El Quemado, quedando conformadas las LAT Cruz de Piedra - El Quemado por un lado y El Quemado - San Juan por el otro».
Expansion of the El Quemado substation for the third stage
PowerThe same node on the trunk network, with expanded transformation capacity. The third transformer is 125 MVA, larger than the first two at 115 MVA.
Listed in article 1 of Resolución ENRE 218/2026, which processes the access and expansion for «la Etapa III de su Parque Solar Fotovoltaico (PSFV) El Quemado de 105 MW adicionales» — stage III of the solar park, 105 additional MW.
New access from National Route 40, with a right of way
RoadsThe access was built over a right of way created for the purpose, on land whose registered owner is Mendoza's Departamento General de Irrigación. It remains as the entrance to a site of more than 600 hectares in an area with no prior road.
Verbatim from the owner's community report: «un usufructo del terreno en el cual se instalará el Parque y una servidumbre de paso para el nuevo acceso desde la RN 40» was created — a usufruct over the land and a right of way for the new access from Route 40 — and the park sits «a 4 km al Noroeste de un nuevo punto de ingreso sobre RN 40, aproximadamente en el km 3.352,5 de ésta».
- What it already pays in taxes and royalties — We have not broken down this project’s local fiscal contribution: the primary source that sets each item still has to be opened, and an act of the State is not published on press backing.
- Who promised what — We have not surveyed the public promises about this project. A dated, verifiable commitment with its source closes them.
What could stall it
risks and how to track them
- What could stall it — We have not documented this project’s risks. An identifiable vector with its source closes them.
- How to tell whether it is advancing — We have not defined this project’s indicators: what observable fact marks its progress still has to be identified.
How we verified this
the act, the gaps and the sources
The RIGI act, in detail
EX-2024-117037596-APN-SCEYM#MEC verif Jan 8, 2025 ↗
Dec 16, 2024 verif Jan 8, 2025 ↗
The act’s articles, in detail
4 facts on the commitment
55,5 % of the amount earmarked for suppliers that goes to LOCAL suppliers (own calculation) estim Jan 8, 2025
The project's total investment (USD 211,600,072), which in this act matches the sum of what is earmarked for local and foreign suppliers verif Jan 8, 2025 ↗
30 January 2027 to complete the minimum investment amount. verif Jan 30, 2027 ↗
Luz del Campo S.A., tax ID 30-71765521-0, registered at Macacha Güemes 515, Floor 3, Buenos Aires City. verif Jan 8, 2025 ↗
What we could not confirm
There are 4 in this project. Each says why it could not be confirmed and what it would take to close it.
H-01How many people stay on to run the park+
No source publishes it, and now we know why the figure would be small: the park is run remotely from YPF Luz's Remote Operations Centre in Puerto Madero, and on site there is only «personnel carrying out operational support and general maintenance», with no number given. The SEC F-1 filing gives no headcount per asset either. The construction figure — more than 350 people at peak — exists and is on file, but mixing it with the operating figure is exactly the error the `empleo` field exists to prevent.
H-02The text of the provincial environmental licences, Resoluciones 156/2024 and 007/2025+
The owner's community report names them — «Las Resoluciones 156/2024 y 007/2025 constituyen las Licencias Ambientales a favor de LUZ DEL CAMPO S.A.», under Mendoza's Ley provincial 5961/92 — but their text was not found in Mendoza's Official Gazette nor through search. This is an ACCESS gap, not a question of existence. ⚠️ Two independent research passes declared it open separately, which points to the document not being indexed rather than to a poor search.
H-03Who bid for the work and at what price+
There is no tender document, no bidder list, no contract amount and no ranking. The tender is the owner's private process: there is no state act to open, so this gap is not «I have not found it yet» but «it cannot exist in a public source» unless the company publishes it itself.
H-04Where DQD, the mounting contractor, is from+
The province's official press refers to «a company with Uruguayan capital» without naming it, and other press pieces place DQD as a San Juan SME. Neither version has a primary source. It is left open rather than picked, because the contractor's origin is precisely what measures how much of the project the province captures.
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