The description of one publication is that the proposed $4 billion aluminum smeltering plant at Oklahoma’s Port of Inola would be an “energy hog.”
It’s how Canary Media described the plant because of the amount of electricity needed in order for it to manufature an estimated 600,000 tons of aluminum a year. The Emirates Global Aluminium plant is one of two such smeltering operations to be built in the U.S. in the past nearly 50 years, reported Canary Media.
There’s no doubt the Emirates Global plant’s electrical power needs were in the forefront when Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners recently approved a $730 million acquisition of the Green Country Power Plant in Jenks by Public Service Company of Oklahoma.
As PSO stated in its own release after the June vote by regulators, “This acquisition, set to be finalized by July 2025, will enhance PSO’s capacity to meet the rising energy demands of its customers.”
The other such proposed aluminum smeltering plant is to be located in Kentucky.
“But for that to happen, they will first have to secure a steady supply of electricity, at a time when AI data centers and other industrial facilities are competing fiercely for a share of the country’s limited power resources, and as the grid is strained by surging demand,” reported Canary Media.
“The smelters proposed by Emirates Global Aluminium and Century Aluminum would be energy hogs.”
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