The paper analyzes the electricity saving potential of nonferrous metals industry in China. The cointegration method is … applied to estimate electricity intensity of Chinese nonferrous metals industry, in an effort to predict future electricity … different possible measures that might be adopted to narrow down the electricity efficiency gap between nonferrous metals …

and utility mix on the total carbon dioxide emissions from the Chinese nonferrous metals industry for the period 1996 …–2008. In addition, we calculated the trend of decoupling effects in nonferrous metals industry in China by presenting a … theoretical framework for decoupling. As the results suggest, Chinese nonferrous metals industry has gone through four decoupling …

China is the largest nonferrous metals producer in the world and largest consumer for six kinds of common nonferrous … metals including copper, aluminum, zinc, lead, nickel and tin. This paper provides an overview of the nonferrous metals …) operate nonferrous metals production facilities which rank low in energy efficiency and therefore are highly energy intensive …