Glencore CEO, Ivan Glasenberg, says electric cars are here to stay and will help drive copper demand. Mr Glasenburg-speaking at a recent Bank of America Merrill Lynch presentation in Barcelona-said around 30% of the world’s vehicles being produced by 2030 would be electric. The modelling was based on a study it commissioned from CRU across […]
China’s Energy Transformers
China is trialling replacing old transformers with energy efficient models. ICA China is working with a range of government agencies and companies to introduce more energy efficient transformers-also known as a “higher energy density transformer”-as old ones age. A trial case study with the local government in Zhenjiang city to replace ageing transformers and procurement […]
Global Copper Trends In Taipei Spotlight
ICA China’s 2018 Global Copper Industry Development Trends Forum in Taipei in April attracted some of the world’s biggest companies and the country’s leading manufacturers. The Forum drew a diverse group of experts from around the world and locally. Global companies Codelco, Anglo American and Glencore attended, as well as over a hundred local manufacturers, […]
Can Energy Co’s Cope With Home Tech?
Our energy providers are facing a tsunami of change and for many its been a game of catch up. Alongside new forms of clean energy like solar on roof tops, rising costs and growing consumer complaints about price or services, they’re also confronting old and new homes being rapidly reinvented by technology. Better broadband has […]
Future of Energy Management 27 September 2017 In Australia, amongst all the commentary on the dire state of the energy market , perhaps we need to ask ourselves” Should energy pricing be driven by the market or by Government intervention?” If we look back over the last 10 years , it is evident that intervention […]
Smaller Copper, Bigger Efficiency
Heat exchangers using smaller diameter copper tubing are energy smart and finding all sorts of new uses. “Not many years ago, there were just a handful of smaller diameter copper tube applications, but that is no longer the case,” says Avinash Khemka from International Copper Association India. “Smaller Diameter Copper Tube heat exchangers enable high […]
Let’s Make Our Homes Power Stations
The UK government says it wants smart homes and gadgets to be connected much more closely with the electricity grid. A plan they say will help even out the ups and downs of energy supply and demand, and save consumers and businesses a lot of money along the way. And lets face it we now […]
Cool Japan
As Japan’s air conditioning market heats up, copper is helping it be energy smart too. Room-type air-conditioners are now an integral part of Japanese housing, often used in every room in the home and seen as essential for modern life. In fact despite warnings that the market had reached saturation point, sales keep rising-up from […]
Do We Give a Finkel?
A new blueprint to reshape Australia’s electricity market by Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel provides a workable platform to achieve energy security, reliability and affordability whilst also meeting our global carbon objectives over the next 30 years. A new blueprint to reshape Australia’s electricity market by Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel provides a workable platform […]
Korea Launches High Efficiency Motors
A high efficiency, compact motor using the copper motor rotor technology has just been launched by ICA Korea. Showcased at the ‘Global Electric Power Tech 2016’ expo in Seoul in May, the new motor is able to improve the energy efficiency and reliability of industrial induction engines without increasing their frame size, an important advantage […]
Lets Make Our Homes Power Stations
We now have all the technology to make our homes really energy smart says John Fennell The UK government says it wants smart homes and gadgets to be connected much more closely with the electricity grid. A plan they say will help even out the ups and downs of energy supply and demand, and save […]
Energy Crisis Sparks Competition
Serial entrepreneur & Tesla boss, Elon Musk, got a lot of attention last week when he said he could fix South Australia’s ‘energy crisis’ by building a massive battery storage farm. South Australia’s energy crisis quickly became Australia’s as we all learned that the country not only faces an electricity shortfall and price rises, but […]
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