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Home » Lacking Low-cost Power Agreement, Wash. Smelter Revival Falters
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The deal to buy the former Alcoa Intalco Works near Ferndale, Wash., has faltered over the lack of a power supply agreement. | Washington Dept. of Ecology

Lacking Low-cost Power Agreement, Wash. Smelter Revival Falters

BPA Balks at Providing Proposed Buyer Guarantee of Cheap Electricity

Dec 19, 2022
John Stang
Industrial Decarbonization / Employment & Economic Impact / Hydropower / Washington / CAISO/WEIM / Company News / Hydropower

An effort to reopen Washington’s last standing aluminum plant with a lower carbon footprint faltered after BPA declined to guarantee low-cost energy.

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