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Biomass and Biomass and biofuel stores

Their prices have moved together.

Biomass (energy) and Biomass and biofuel stores (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: solid biomass

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Wood chips and pellets are the main solid biomass stores for power plants and heating. The wood chips proxy shows almost no monthly link to ethanol, at -0.06, since solid and liquid biofuels serve different markets.

  • -0.06 monthly change correlation
  • 0.30 12-month change correlation
  • 0.49 fitted elasticity

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