Oceania’s primary aluminium industry is facing a fragmented energy transition. While Australia, the leading aluminium producer of the continent, has abundant renewable resources and a well-established aluminium value chain, its smelters remain significantly more dependent on fossil-fuel-based...
India’s green hydrogen push is gradually moving from targets and project announcements towards building the infrastructure needed for large-scale production. Manufacturing facilities, renewable power projects, ammonia plants and port infrastructure are becoming important parts of the next stage of...
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India’s state-owned energy giant NTPC Ltd has taken a further step toward expanding its renewable portfolio, with new capacity now entering commercial service in Gujarat. Through its step-down subsidiary, NTPC Renewable Energy Ltd, the company has begun supplying 165 MW of power from the Khavda-II...
Australia is negotiating a complex support package to keep the Tomago Aluminium smelter active. The push could lock taxpayers for up to a decade into annual subsidies of a minimum of USD 300 million. Owing to rising energy costs and a lack of affordable long-term renewable power, Australia’s...
Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL) awarded a 625 MWp solar power tender at a tariff of INR 2.34 per unit (USD 0.025) to Welspun Energy and NLC India Limited. Out of the total capacity, 300 MW was allocated to each. Explore- Most accurate data to drive business decisions with Global ALuminium...
Striving for a circular economy and a sustainable future, India has decided to commission only domestically produced solar ingots and wafers for renewable energy firms, starting June 2028. Proposed by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), the strategy is aimed at reducing dependency on...
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) released new guidelines in March 2026 for handling and storing waste from solar panels. These rules are issued under the E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2022. The aim is to manage the rising amount of solar waste in a safe way. As solar energy use has...
Hindalco Industries Ltd (Aditya Aluminium) has achieved ASI Performance Standard V3.1 (2023) with Provisional status for the manufacture and export of high-purity primary aluminium in different forms and specifications, including pig ingot, sow ingot and primary foundry alloy, and the 900 MW...
Global aluminium wire exports continued to show resilience in 2025 (as of data collected till October), reinforced by increasing demand from the power transmission, renewable energy, automotive and construction sectors. Aluminium wire remains widely used in electrical infrastructure due to its high...
China Hongqiao Group, one of the world’s largest aluminium producers, has seen its market value rise significantly since 2019. The company’s shares have surged by about 585 per cent since Zhang took control of the business that year. The company supplies aluminium to several major Chinese...
Joakim Haraldsson, a researcher at Lund University, suggested that aluminium can be a sustainable fuel for maritime transport. This might reduce the CO2 emission, evidently, after tackling prevailing technical and economic challenges. Haraldsson suggests that renewable energy can be stored in the...
Specialised in plasma-based technology for heavy industry and defence, PyroGenesis has completed manufacturing a plasma torch system for Constellium . A significant step toward aluminium furnace electrification, the system will be installed in the company’s casthouse remelting furnace to replace...
A new photovoltaic solar energy system at Crown Packaging Manufacturing, Spain's beverage can manufacture plant in Seville, has been installed. This perfectly aligns with the firm's ongoing mission to boost the use of renewable energy throughout the company’s global operations. As a part of Crown’s...
Copper and aluminium have long competed across a wide range of industrial applications. In many sector, these two metals can be used alternatively because of their few common traits like durability, conductivity, ductility, and corrosion-resistance. But at this moment, there is one factor that is...
In this exclusive interview with AL Circle at India Energy Week 2026, Sachin Chugh, the Hydrogen & Energy Lead at ARUP in India, explains in detail how green hydrogen can be converted into usable electricity and why it could prove transformative for energy-intensive industries like aluminium....
The Opposition Spokesperson on Energy and Telecommunications, Phillip Paulwell, emphasised that the economic advantages that can be received from Jamaica after establishing a rare earth minerals industry. He added that this could create exciting opportunities for technological progress as well. In...
Potential partnership between Tajikistan’s Ministry of Industry and New Technologies and the United Kingdom to jointly extract, process, and develop critical minerals becomes more realistic as the former has passed a draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the UK government. This cooperation...
India’s renewable sector (focusing on solar this time) came to the end of 2025 with the highest-ever renewable energy expansion in India’s energy transition journey. Among all, solar installed capacity touched 132.85 GW as India added nearly 35 GW from January to November 2025, as compared to the...
The latest figures from Rystad Energy show Australia's growing collection of large-scale solar and wind projects, producing 5.0 TWh of clean energy last month. Month-on-month, an increase of 11 per cent has been witnessed from the 4,519 GWh recorded in February 2025. David Dixon, the Senior Analyst...
An investment of USD 6 billion for establishing a high-tech innovative hub to be located in Saemangeum, Gunsan, will be made by Hyundai Motor Group. This investment targets establishing a high-tech innovative hub with hydrogen production, renewable energy and artificial intelligence. From...
