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...
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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...
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...
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...
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Norsk Hydro Inks Long-Term Energy Contract with Swedish Wind-Energy Firm
Norway’s aluminium firm Norsk Hydro A.S.A. announced yesterday that a subsidiary signed a long-term power contract with a Swedish wind-power company for electricity to fuel the firm’s aluminium operations. Hydro Energi AS’s agreement is with Sweden’s Markbygden Ett AB and will have the latter providing an annual baseload supply to Hydro Energi of 1.65 TWh. […]
Nalco to Look to Renewable Energy for Growing Power Needs
According to the company’s annual report, Indian state-run aluminium firm National Aluminium Company (Nalco) has decided to turn to renewable energy to satisfy its growing power needs. At present, Nalco derives over 100 mW of power from two wind farms, one each at Rajasthan and Maharastra, the result of an investment of ₹6.7 billion (US$104 […]
U.S. Firm Debuts Improved Aluminium Wire for Wind Turbine Applications
American wire and cable producer Southwire Company, LLC announced the development of a new aluminium wire product with enhanced features suited to down-tower wind turbine use. The company’s new cable has three layers: 8000 Series Aluminum conductor per ASTM B800, Class C Compact strand per ASTM B801 or Single Input Wire stranding per ASTM B836, […]
Nalco Plans 150-mW Wind Power Facility in Odisha
India’s state-owned aluminium firm National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) announced a plan late last week to build a 150-mW wind power farm in Odisha. The plant, which could cost in the neighborhood of US$140 million, is intended to support Nalco’s one-million-metric-ton capacity expansion at facilities in the eastern state. “While the Nation is transforming into […]
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 ...
