01 Apr 2024 --- The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations has chosen Century Aluminum Company this week to begin award negotiations for up to US$500 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act funding to build a new aluminum smelter as part of the Industrial Demonstrations Program. With the DOE funding, Century Aluminum plans to build the first new US primary aluminum smelter in 45 years. Upon completion, the smelter would double the size of the country’s current primary aluminum industry. The primary aluminum giant’s Green Aluminum Smelter Project is one of 33 projects across 20 US states to receive funding designed to demonstrate commercial-scale decarbonization solutions for transitioning energy-intensive industries toward net-zero while “strengthening local economies, creating and maintaining high-quality jobs, and slashing GHG emissions.”
