Daily Monitor Wednesday June 02 2021 Copper is a very good conductor and carries a larger current in a smaller area. PHOTO/unsplash.com/Dina Lydia Summary When it comes to choice of material for large scale cabling, aluminium displays the most favourable characteristics both in use and in the market. And yet copper is still widely used in the country. Hemnabh Khatau explains why, in spite of the disadvantages, copper remains a staple. Advertisement Uganda still predominantly uses armoured copper cables for larger power and industrial applications. In this respect, Uganda is lagging many other countries, who have switched to aluminium power cables since the last few decades especially for industrial and large commercial applications.