# Cement and Hydropower dams

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/cement-and-hydropower-dams/

[Cement](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/cement/) (commodity) and [Hydropower dams](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_hydro_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.