Minerals for clean energy technologies have emerged as a top priority for governments, industry and advocates over the past few years. Just earlier this month, the EU’s Council and Parliament reached an agreement on the Critical Raw Materials Act, a comprehensive set of actions to secure a responsible supply of raw materials to meet Europe’s clean energy needs. Discourse on clean energy technologies is increasingly intertwined with minerals, but their story actually started decades ago.
We use these metals and minerals across a wide range of applications to build and advance our modern life, not just in clean energy technology. The materials roughly fall into three categories:
- Metals and minerals that are used widely, with clean energy applications being only a small part of their total use, like steel and aluminum;
- Those used widely, but with a large portion of their supply increasingly dedicated to clean technologies, like copper and nickel;
- And those whose demand is primarily driven by clean technologies, like lithium and graphite.
Tirupati Graphite PLC (LON:TGR) is a fully integrated specialist graphite and graphene producer, with operations in Madagascar and India. The Company is delivering on this strategy by being fully integrated from mine to graphene. Its global multi-location operations include primary mining and processing in Madagascar, hi-tech graphite processing in India to produce specialty graphite, and a state-of-art graphene and technology R&D center to be established in India.
