Fusion for Metals & Smelting

Producing aluminum, steel, and other metals is enormously electricity-intensive. Firm clean fusion power could decarbonize electrometallurgy without sacrificing reliability.

Need

Vast, steady electricity (and heat)

Example

Aluminum smelting, electric-arc steel

Fusion offer

Firm clean power at scale

Benefit

Decarbonize energy-intensive metals

Metals production is one of the most electricity-intensive activities in the economy. Aluminum smelting runs on continuous DC power; electric-arc steelmaking on large steady loads; and the whole sector needs that power to be cheap and utterly reliable, since interruptions can ruin a batch or freeze a smelter.

Firm fusion power fits the requirement precisely: firm, around-the-clock clean electricity at scale, with the DC-native output that aluminum smelting in particular can use directly. A three-unit MetroVolt station could anchor a large smelter or metals complex.

Decarbonizing heavy metals is a major piece of industrial decarbonization, and doing it without sacrificing the reliability these processes demand is exactly what firm clean power enables. See fusion for heavy industry.