Agro giant bets on sustainability and will use renewable energy on two floors

Syngenta and Genneia signed an agreement to supply solar and wind energy to the seed process plants located in Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe

04/14/2025 – 21: 05hs

The multinational agricultural business Syngenta He has just announced that two of its seed process plants They will use in their entirety renewable energies to function.

The Argentine subsidiary of the Giant of agribusiness He explained that he has already started with the change process towards renewable energiesand that is why the totality of the energy used by the two seed plants located in Venado Tuerto will come from clean energy.

This occurs after the signing of an agreement with Genneia, a company dedicated to the provision of sustainable energy solutions, through which operational power will be provided that will come from wind and solar energy.

Agro giant bets on sustainability

This initiative seeks Maintain Syngenta’s path towards sustainability and includes an approach to sustainable operationsseeking to reduce the environmental impact of own operations and supply chain.

As reported from Syngentahis new partner, GenneiaIt has an outstanding capacity installed in several provinces of the country, contributing to the reduction of carbon emissions and Argentina’s energy transition to cleaner and sustainable sources.

For this project, Renewable energy will be supplied from the solar and wind farms that genneia It has in different parts of the country.

The energy will be supplied by wind and lots of the company Genneia

This alliance is part of the Renewable Energy Term Market (MAT)a regulatory and commercial framework that allows large electricity users to hire the energy supply from renewable sources directly with private generators, through long -term contracts.

Access to MAT fosters renewable investment projects that help improve the country’s energy matrix, reducing fossil fuel dependence.

“The carbon footprint related to energy consumption was reduced 100%”

“For Syngenta, this is an important step. In addition to other actions implemented in recent years, The carbon footprint related to the consumption of electricity in the operations of our Tuerto deer plants was reduced by 100% From the entry into force of this agreement, “he said Leandro GonzálezSyngenta plants manager in that town.

For his part, Gabriela Guzzo, Senior Commercial Manager of Genneia, added: “We are very happy to accompany Syngenta in this new process, collaborating ArEducate the environmental impact of its operations. This action, which is aligned with the sustainability strategy of both companies, allows us to continue advancing in an increasingly solid change in renewable energy to decarbonize industrial processes. “

“We are proud to start producing with energy from renewable sources, maximizing our added value. This innovation reflects our commitment to the sustainability and future of agriculture, “González concluded.

Recently, another of the large companies in the agro market announced a similar path: from Parchment, the manufacturer of biological supplies Rizobacter communicated in an official way that from now on, the total energy supply of its formulating plant will come from clean energy.