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Biogas and biomethane and Combined heat and power

Their prices have moved together.

Biogas and biomethane (chemical) and Combined heat and power (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: renewable fuel

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Biogas and biomethane from farms and landfills often fuel CHP engines. The proxy, US natural gas, shows no link with the turbine index, at -0.04 monthly, since equipment prices follow manufacturing rather than fuel.

  • -0.04 monthly change correlation
  • -0.13 12-month change correlation
  • -0.17 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.