# Energy in buildings and Natural gas

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/energy-in-buildings-and-natural-gas/

[Energy in buildings](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_buildings/) (energy) and [Natural gas](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/natural_gas/) (energy): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: fuel cost

*Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways*

Gas is the main fuel for US power plants and home heating, so gas prices feed into tariffs with a lag. Yearly moves correlate at 0.35 with European gas, weak because American gas prices and regulated tariffs follow their own path.

- **-0.05** monthly change correlation
- **0.35** 12-month change correlation
- **0.09** fitted elasticity

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