VENEZUELA AND GREEN ALUMINUM PRODUCTION
VENEZUELA AND GREEN ALUMINUM PRODUCTION IS THE WORLD MOSTLY PRODUCING GREEN ALUMINUM? In the world there is strong pressure for industrial processes and their products to meet two conditions: 1) caring for the environment; 2) contribution to the circular economy. Aluminum being an infinitely recyclable material, it fully complies with the concepts of the circular economy. As for caring for the environment, being the production of aluminum an electro-intensive process, it is ideal to use electrical energy generated from renewable sources. When we review the energy sources used for the production of aluminum in 2019, we find that the combustion of coal contributed in the order of 60% of the electrical energy to produce the aluminum used worldwide. In fact, hydroelectric energy only contributed with approximately 25% of the total aluminum produced during 2019. When we consider all the sources, renewable and non-renewable, used to generate the electricity used by aluminum smelters, w