{"id":501,"date":"2009-11-19T22:56:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T21:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/?p=501"},"modified":"2009-11-19T22:56:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T21:56:25","slug":"alcoa-to-idle-smelting-operations-in-italy-while-appealing-ec-ruling-on-energy-tariff-business-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/501\/alcoa-to-idle-smelting-operations-in-italy-while-appealing-ec-ruling-on-energy-tariff-business-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcoa to Idle Smelting Operations in Italy While Appealing EC Ruling on Energy Tariff (Business Wire)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK----Alcoa today announced it will temporarily idle production at its two aluminum smelters in Fusina and Portovesme, Italy. The curtailment is a result of uncertainty in obtaining future power supply for the smelters at competitive rates and the financial impact of today\u00e2??s European Commission decision that Italy\u00e2??s extension of the existing electricity tariff after 2005 did not comply with European Union state aid rules and that a portion of the benefit received by Alcoa must be refunded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK----Alcoa today announced it will temporarily idle production at its two aluminum smelters in Fusina and Portovesme, Italy. The curtailment is a result of uncertainty in obtaining future power supply for the smelters at competitive rates and the financial impact of today\u00e2??s European Commission decision that Italy\u00e2??s extension of the existing electricity tariff after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome-start-here-tradecrudeoilchatroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}