> steel mills since they don't use electricity. Really ? p. 7 > Historically, the steel industry has accounted for about 6 percent of U.S. energy consumption

> steel mills since they don't use electricity. Really ? p. 7 > Historically, the steel industry has accounted for about 6 percent of U.S. energy consumption. Today, that figure is less than 2 percent and will decrease further to 1.5 percent by 2010 > The total replacement of the open hearth process by basic oxygen and electric furnaces. > The growth of the electric furnace sector of the industry at the expense of hot metal-based processes ... p. 13 > Electricity (Figure 11): The correlation between plant tons and kilowatt hours over a wide range of production shows that the use of electricity outside the EAF is significant. With an average of 770 kWh/shipped ton and a typical EAF consumption under 500 kWh/cast ton, a significant amount of energy is used for auxiliary equipment in the melt shop, rolling, oxygen production, and general utilities https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2013/11/f4/steel_energy_use.pdf https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2013/11/f4/steel_ene...