Alcoa Inks 131 MW Wind Power Agreement For 2024 Restart Of San Ciprián Aluminium Smelter
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced this week that it has purchased an additional quantity of wind power from a...
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Australian Government Grants A1.5 MM To Offshore Wind Farm For Portland Aluminium Smelter
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) said last week that it has dedicated A$1.5 million toward a wind resource assessment by Spinifex Offshore Wind Farm Pty Ltd aimed at developing a 1,000 MW offshore wind farm to support the Portland aluminium smelter....
Hindalco Inks Agreement With Greenko For Construction Of Sustainable Electric Plant For Odisha Aluminium Smelter
Indian aluminium producer Hindalco Industries has reached an agreement with Greenko Energies Pvt Ltd to build a renewable energy plant...
Rio Tinto Receives Multiple Offers For Wind, Solar Power Project For Australian Alumina And Aluminium Operations
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group said last week that it has received many offers to build wind and solar...
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Hydro Rein To Collaborate With Green Investment Group On Brazilian Solar/Wind Power Project
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA’s subsidiary Hydro Rein has signed an agreement with Macquarie Asset Management’s Green Investment Group (GIG) to build a 586 MW combined wind and solar project called Feijão in northeastern Brazil. Per the firm, the project will power Hydro’s Paragominas bauxite mine and Alunorte alumina refinery, ultimately weaning both plants […]
Norsk Hydro Inks Ten Year Wind Power Deal With Telenor
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA’s subsidiary Hydro Energi AS signed a ten-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Norwegian telecommunications firm Telenor Infra AS this week. The agreement will have Telenor selling the Hydro subsidiary 330 GWh per year of wind energy produced at Sweden’s Stor-Skälsjön wind park, which is a joint project involving another […]
Ball Corporation Inks Twin Deals To Move North American Operations To 100 Percent Renewable Energy
In a bid to transition to utilizing exclusively renewable energy, Colorado’s Ball Corporation announced late last month that it executed a pair of virtual power purchase agreements for 388 megawatts of new renewable energy. The agreements, of which one is for solar power and the other is for wind power, will fuel the entirety of […]
Norsk Hydro Inks 29 Year Wind Power Deal With Green Investment Group
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro A.S.A. announced yesterday a deal between its wholly-owned subsidiary Hydro Energi AS and Macquarie Group Limited’s Green Investment Group for 29 years of wind power. The deal is likely the longest corporate wind power deal yet negotiated. Norsk Hydro says the agreement will include the construction of a new wind […]
Norsk Hydro Inks Long-Term Wind-Power Deal for Domestic Aluminium Production
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro A.S.A. announced yesterday that its wholly-owned subsidiary Hydro Energi AS has entered into a new power agreement with Tonstad Vindpark AS to fuel its aluminium-smelting operations with wind-generated energy. The contract, which has a 25-year term, begins in 2020 and will see Norsk purchasing the entire output of a planned […]
Biden Infrastructure Bill A Big Boon To Aluminium Industry: Norsk Hydro VP Mike Stier
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
