Lugo Province — Spain

Lugo Province is an aluminium smelter in Spain. Its listed capacity is 66,508 t of alumina/aluminum. Aluminium smelters use large electric currents to refine alumina into molten aluminium above 900°C, and the hot metal must flow through crucibles and casting equipment. By capacity it ranks #1 among 2 aluminium smelters in Spain. It emits about 94,176 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.20% of the CO₂e from the 91 facilities in Spain that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 32% below the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3673055.

In context: how this facility compares

At 66,508 t of alumina/aluminum, Lugo Province is around the median aluminium smelter in Spain (66,508 t of alumina/aluminum). Subsector: aluminum. As aluminium smelter, it requires high process heat (typically 600–900°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Aluminium smelters use large electric currents to refine alumina into molten aluminium above 900°C, and the hot metal must flow through crucibles and casting equipment.

Capacity & CO₂-intensity comparison computed from Climate TRACE industrial facilities data; sector role based on engineering reference.

What 94,176 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's estimated annual CO₂e (Climate TRACE, modelled) in everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest aluminium smelters in Spain

Listed capacity (t of alumina/aluminum), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Local climate

Lugo Province sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csb), at 43.1°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

Site climate & environmental severity

This site sits in a moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1388 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.07× the loss at a 20 °C reference. Reference-surface calculation at a 150 °C surface from WorldClim climate normals (ASTM C680 / ISO 12241) — an indicative per-climate comparison, not a measurement of this site’s specific equipment. Open method dataset: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20787408 (CC BY 4.0).

Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.

How it compares & nearby sites

The #1 largest of 2 aluminium smelters in Spain by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Oural Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 152,863 t CO₂
• ALUMINIO ESPAÑOL, SA · Metals Plant · 403,000 t CO₂
• San Ciprian alumina refinery · Aluminium Smelter · 1,860,213 t CO₂
• San Ciprian aluminium plant · Aluminium Smelter · 20,116 t CO₂
• Grupo Empresarial ENCE S.A. Divisíon de Celulosa - Pulp Mill Navia · Pulp & Paper Mill · 209,957 t CO₂
• Megasa Siderúrgica Narón steel plant · Steel Plant · 70,159 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 43.0696, -7.43613. View on OpenStreetMap.

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