Law no. 25,019 on the promotion of wind and solar energy

Country	Argentina
Year Implemented	1999
Policy Status	Superseded
Date Promulgated	November 1998
Date Effective	December 1999
Date Ended	2006
Agency	•Ministry of Federal Planning, Public Services and Investments-National Secretariat of Energy
Policy Superseded by	Promotion of renewable sources of energy for electricity production
Policy Type	•Financial   •Taxes and Tax Incentives     •Tax Reduction •Incentives/Subsidies   •Feed-in Tariffs
Policy Target	•Solar •Wind
Policy Sector	•Electricity
Description	Law no. 25,019 was adopted in November 1998, with implementing provisions initiated in December 1999, in order to regulate both wind and solar energy. The law introduced for the first time national-level assistance to the amount of EUR cents 0.23 kWh (0.01 arg$/kWh) for wind energy. This subsidy was paid in addition to revenues from the sale of energy for the following 15 years. The law also prescribed tax incentives in the form of stretched-out remittance of value-added tax. It became generally accepted that the national law on the promotion of renewable energies did not offer sufficient incentives and therefore needed to be expanded, leading to the Law on the promotion of power generation from renewable energy sources being passed on 6 December 2006.
URL	energia.mecon.gov.ar
Legal References	Law no. 25,019|Decreto P.E.N. No 1.597/99.