# Carbon dioxide and Energy-intensive industry

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/carbon-dioxide-and-energy-intensive-industry/

[Carbon dioxide](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/carbon_dioxide/) (chemical) and [Energy-intensive industry](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_heavy_industry/) (energy): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: energy cost

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

Purifying and liquefying CO2 uses electricity for compression and refrigeration. The industrial power index moves with the CO2 index at 0.09 monthly, rising to 0.40 over the last five years.

- **0.09** monthly change correlation
- **0.22** 12-month change correlation
- **1.83** fitted elasticity

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