What goes into the CBAM figure for aluminium from the Sumgait smelter?

Only direct emissions count for aluminium: CO2 from anodes consumed in the pots, perfluorocarbons from anode effects, and fuel for casting and anode baking. Electricity is reported but not charged. Alumina refined at Ganja is not a CBAM precursor.

Direct emissions

• Anode carbon consumed per tonne of metal.
• Perfluorocarbons from anode effects, as CO2 equivalent.
• Gas for casting, holding furnaces and anode baking.

Alumina

Alumina is not listed in CBAM, so its refining emissions stay out of the CBAM figure. EU buyers asking for a full footprint will still want them.

Electricity

Smelting uses a lot of power from a gas heavy grid. Report kWh per tonne and the factor, even though it is not charged.

What Senseible does here

Senseible keeps each site's fuel, power and production records together, so the embedded emissions you send an EU importer trace back to dated documents.

• Alumina is not a precursor
• Bahraini smelter figure
• Pavlodar smelter

Sources: Regulation (EU) 2023/956 (CBAM Regulation), consolidated, European Commission, CBAM definitive regime, 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories

Last reviewed 2026-10-21.