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Tiwai cloud over electricity sector lightens

Dairy dryers loom as a potential replacement electricity user.

Jenny Ruth
Tue, 04 Apr 2017

The economic fortunes of the Tiwai aluminium smelter have improved considerably but the threat of its closure remains a cloud over the electricity sector.

The smelter’s owners, Rio Tinto with 80% and Sumitomo owning the rest, can give a year’s notice of closure at any time and the smelter uses

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Jenny Ruth
Tue, 04 Apr 2017
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