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Compressed-air and CO2 storage and Salt

Their prices have moved together.

Compressed-air and CO2 storage (energy) and Salt (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: cavern host

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

The cheapest storage uses caverns dissolved out of underground salt layers by solution mining, which also produces brine. The salt index shows little relation to the compressor proxy, with monthly moves at 0.07.

  • 0.07 monthly change correlation
  • -0.20 12-month change correlation
  • 1.72 fitted elasticity

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