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Bisphenol A and Onshore wind

Their prices have moved together.

Bisphenol A (chemical) and Onshore wind (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: end use

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Wind turbine blades use large amounts of epoxy, so wind build-out adds BPA demand. The turbine price proxy does not move with the cyclic proxy, 0.02 monthly, because turbine prices follow steel, contracts and competition.

  • 0.02 monthly change correlation
  • -0.04 12-month change correlation
  • 1.22 fitted elasticity

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