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Coking coal and Hydrogen

Their prices have moved together.

Coking coal (energy) and Hydrogen (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: substitute reductant

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Direct reduction of iron with hydrogen or gas could replace coke in steelmaking, cutting coking coal demand over the long run. No price link exists yet: the hydrogen index is a US industrial gas price and shows no correlation with coal (0.01).

  • 0.01 monthly change correlation
  • -0.10 12-month change correlation
  • -1.69 fitted elasticity

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