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In Almafuerte, solar energy is used to make Solar Damper

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Update time : 2018-11-13 19:28:27
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The company Barattero uses solar panels to supply electricity to its factory.
    • He created a new business unit, which provides equipment of up to 5 megawatts of power.


For almost two decades, the Barattero brand has been associated with the design and manufacture of solar damper for racing vehicles and trucks. In that world, this family industry of Almafuerte is recognized.

Now, one of
slewing drive its owners, Ricardo Fabián Barattero, along with two of his sons, ventures into solar energy. About three million pesos was the initial investment, four years ago, to form Baratec Solar.

"The investment is progressive," says Ricardo. And there is still a way to consolidate in a new area.

The market for solar equipment is expanding. He explained that last week, for example, they sold from a team of 30 thousand pesos for a rural family, to the installation to an industry in Salta with a thousand panels.

The amounts of solar energy equipment vary according to the service: they range from 30 thousand pesos and above. The firm Barattero exposes its own case: for its two business units (solar damper and solar energy) it is supplied with a solar connection. Through 144 panels, with an investment of approximately 60 thousand dollars, for a peak power of 45 kilowatts.

In terms of solar energy, the cost is calculated for each installed kilowatt peak, depending on whether the finished product is turnkey or only the sale.

They also sell solar equipment for pumping water from the well, which replaces the task of a windmill, widely used in rural areas. Its cost depends on the provision, but on average it ranges between 80 thousand and 150 thousand pesos.

The brand new unit of the company has 10 employees. 60% of the product sold by Baratec Solar has imported inputs and the remaining 40 is manufactured by the manufacturer. Barattero pondered the importance of that 40 percent leaves the solar damper factory itself, taking advantage of its engineering. Although this new item seems to have no ceiling, Barattero anticipated that they want to dedicate themselves to this item "in investments of four or five megawatts down". That is to slewing drive say, they do not intend to become a "mega company".

Own system

A broad competition is awakening in this area. For Baratec, the bet is differentiated with the provision of the tracker. A system of electrohydraulic traction of rapid response, manufactured in your plant, necessary for the automatic change of position in situation of winds or storms and useful to optimize power generation and tracking of the sun.

The businessman stressed that the two companies in the family "are very different, but at the same time there is a lot of connection between the two."

Baratec is dedicated to the sale and installation of the solar energy service connected to the network, without connection or the one that adds the generating group. He is the representative of the Austrian firm Fronius, the Dutch company Victron and the German company Calyxo.

The businessman follows his instinct of self-taught and participates in the main thematic fairs in the world, in addition to inform and advise, as recognized.

"The factory today generates more energy than it consumes," he said.

To connect directly to the public power network, the company had to sign an agreement with the electric cooperative that provides the energy service in Almafuerte.

This mechanism is contemplated within the new law of distributed generation, which allows those users connected to the public network, "with solar energy to be supplied; and what it needs, take it from the network; but what's left over, send it back to the network. " In this line, he noted that several of the sales have been made in Salta, a province that has a provincial law that moves in that direction.

Barattero said that while they are trying to define the direction of the firm. These days, at the request of companies linked to mining and oil, are "moving forward in a new development of their own. "It consists of a power plant in containers, which would have a generating group, panels and batteries", the entrepreneur anticipated.

Regarding the incidence of the ups and downs of the national economy, he responded that "we always have to look for a return". Although he stressed that with adequate funding, the activity would have better development and would be more massive.



The company Barattero has a long history in the manufacture of solar damper. Provides the Road Tourism, Rally, and Trucks category. It also sells technology in hydraulic systems for agricultural machinery.

Of the total production, between 15 and 20 percent is sold in the external market. Since 2003, it has exported to the United States, Japan, Australia, Spain and countries in the region: Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia.
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