Lacking Low-cost Power Agreement, Wash. Smelter Revival Falters
BPA Balks at Providing Proposed Buyer Guarantee of Cheap Electricity
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
Dec 20, 2022
An effort to reopen Washington’s last standing aluminum plant with a lower carbon footprint faltered after BPA declined to guarantee low-cost energy.