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After 46 years without building a single primary aluminum smelter, the US is starting one in Inola, Oklahoma. Century Aluminum and Emirates Global Aluminium plan to produce 750,000 tonnes per year, which would more than double current US output from four remaining plants that together make roughly 680,000 tonnes. A smelter this size consumes about 11 TWh of electricity per year, comparable to a city the size of Nashville, because producing one tonne of primary aluminum requires around 14 MWh of continuous electrolysis. In 1980 the country had 33 smelters producing 4.6 million tonnes. manufacturingdive.com/news/century-a…
