Energy revolution leaves US aluminium in the cold
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Table of contents
- Past and mutual appreciation
- Deregulation and revolution
- Breaking of the fellowship
- Little incentive
- Outward looking
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- Changes to US primary aluminium smelting capacity, 1999-2014 (ktpa)
- Contract and base case wholesale weighted average power tariffs, 2003-2025, US$/MWh (2014$)
- Long run US incentive price for greenfield and brownfield primary capacity, 10% IRR (2014$)
- Modelled smelter operating margins on LME, alumina and wholesale forecast prices, 2014-2020, US$/t
- US primary aluminium balance
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