Alcoa and the Great North Carolina Power Grab  

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Otterbourg, Ken

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: Fortune vol. 163 no. 1 (Jan. 2011), page 64-70.
Topik: aluminum; smelter; jobs; Alcoa's Badin Works; hydroelectric dams; commodity; clean energy
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They used to make aluminum here. The smelter ran next to a pretty lake, and the heat inside was so intense that the quick on the back of a man's finger would tingle. Aluminum built this town. It built the houses and the schools, a hospital and a golf course. Later there was a theater that in its day was the largest between Richmond and Atlanta. There were jobs that paid double the wages of work in a textile mill, and they were as prized as a favorite fishing hole. The smelter closed in 2002. The ingot room next door, where the metal from here and later elsewhere was poured and shaped, went five years later. And today the last products of Alcoa's Badin Works can be found at the town's tiny history museum, where a quarter-pound souvenir ingot costs $5. To power its operations, Alcoa built a series of enormous hydroelectric dams, four in all, along a 38-mile stretch of the Yadkin River as it cuts through the heart of the state. But with the smelter disassembled and the ingot room gone cold, the power is a commodity, sold into an electrical grid hungry for clean energy. Alcoa's federal license, received in 1958, has expired, and it operates the dams under an extension as it seeks relicensing for another 50 years' use of the river.

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