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

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/sumgait-aluminium-smelter-cbam-figure

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](https://senseible.earth/answers/aluminium-smelter-alumina-scope-3-not-precursor)
- [Bahraini smelter figure](https://senseible.earth/answers/bahrain-aluminium-smelter-cbam-figure)
- [Pavlodar smelter](https://senseible.earth/answers/pavlodar-aluminium-smelter-cbam-direct-emissions)

Sources: [Regulation (EU) 2023/956 (CBAM Regulation), consolidated](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/956/2025-10-20), [European Commission, CBAM definitive regime](https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism/cbam-definitive-regime_en), [2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories](https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/)

Last reviewed 2026-10-21.