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Energy Efficiency

Energy Efficiency

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Energy efficiency brings a competitive advantage. Copper is the best nonprecious conductor of heat and electricity, which is essential to an efficient generation and delivery of electricity to homes and businesses. In society, copper is a vital component in electrical grids, green energy, electric vehicles and rechargeable batteries, making them more energy efficient.

Additionally, copper helps the products containing it to operate at peak efficiency. Using inferior conductors reduces efficiency, leading to wasted energy, higher utility bills, and increased greenhouse-gas emissions.

Energy efficiency provides a three-tiered value proposition, a true win-win-win situation:

  • Increased energy efficiency helps society spend less on new power-generating capacity and limits stress on grids.
  • Increased energy efficiency reduces utility bills and increases spending power for individuals and offers higher competitiveness for businesses.
  • Energy-efficient products release less CO2, offering a pathway toward fast and meaningful impact on global climate-change goals.

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Understanding the Energy Efficiency Challenge

Article | Energy Efficiency
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Reflections from the Concordia Annual Summit Energy efficiency is key to delivering more than 40…

17 November 2022

Launch of GEAR (Grid Efficiency & Resilience) Partnership Initiative

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GEAR brings together world leaders to ensure access to energy-efficient and resilient grids in Africa....

17 May 2022

Infrastructure Reimagined: Industry and the Grid Fact Sheet

Factsheet | Clean Energy
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Industry and electricity generation are responsible for almost 40 percent of total global greenhouse gas…

28 March 2022

Efficient in-building electrical installations can save 1% of the electricity generated in the EU

Infographic | Building & Renovating in an Energy and Resource Efficient Way
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Economic sizing of in-building electrical installations Two percent of the electricity generated in the EU…

24 February 2022

Key energy access partners launch CORE at COP26 to address skills gap in the sector

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Press Release 5 November 2021 The International Copper Association (ICA), Sustainable Energy for ALL (SEforALL),…

The International Copper Association is a founding partner of the new Cornerstone of Rural Electrification Initiative (CORE)....

5 November 2021

Call to EU Leaders: #EUGreenRecovery to Restart Europe

Article | Green Deal
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The European Copper Institute (ECI) joins with representatives from Europe’s renewable energy and energy-efficiency value…

2 April 2020

ICA Members at the Core of Climate-Smart Mining

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Rio Tinto and Anglo American Join Groundbreaking World Bank Fund Mining is one of the…

29 February 2020

Energy and Mining: Challenges Present New Opportunities

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THE CHALLENGE As the copper resource is developed, mining begins by extracting ore closest to…

18 March 2019

Anglo American Spearheads the Development of Breakthrough Technology for Scalable Water conservation

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27 May 2018

Three Ways Copper Will Contribute to China’s New Energy Vehicle Growth

Article | Automotive
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The State Council of China developed the Energy-Saving and New Energy Automobile Industry Development Plan…

19 April 2018

Solar Replaces Diesel To Power The Milpillas Copper Mine

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Danish firm Arcon-Sunmark has delivered the largest solar thermal plant in North America as a…

9 April 2018

Energy Efficiency and Air Quality in Aircon

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26 August 2017

Copper at the Core of Driving Worldwide Sustainable Energy Growth

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Copper has been pushing the boundaries of innovation since the dawn of civilization. Today, copper…

20 July 2017

Unconventional Aircon Design Increases Efficiency

Article | Technology
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New design techniques reduce copper use by 40 percent while decreasing electricity demand and increasing…

20 April 2017

Copper: Enables a Sustainable Future

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14 April 2017
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