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Cement and Hydropower dams

Their prices have moved together.

Cement (commodity) and Hydropower dams (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: main input

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Dams need huge volumes of concrete, so cement prices drive civil costs. The proxy is a US turbine index, which covers equipment only, so it does not track cement: monthly moves correlate at -0.08.

  • -0.08 monthly change correlation
  • 0.14 12-month change correlation
  • 0.43 fitted elasticity

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