Electric steel mills and any other kind of metal smelting can just as easily be run off a wind farm, or tidal or solar power, so long as the electrons go back and forth at the right frequency and right voltage.
And with the required level of availability. You can't load shed an arc furnace when the wind drops or it gets dark. This was one of the problems they have had in Australia. If the power is lost to the smelter for more than four hours you close the doors and go home.
Electric steel mills and any other kind of metal smelting can just as easily be run off a wind farm, or tidal or solar power, so long as the electrons go back and forth at the right frequency and right voltage.
And with the required level of availability. You can't load shed an arc furnace when the wind drops or it gets dark. This was one of the problems they have had in Australia. If the power is lost to the smelter for more than four hours you close the doors and go home.
