# Energy-intensive industry and Industrial heat pumps and vapour recompression

Energy flows from energy-intensive industry to industrial heat pumps and vapour recompression; energy flows from industrial heat pumps and vapour recompression to energy-intensive industry; their prices have moved together.

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[Energy-intensive industry](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_heavy_industry/) (energy) and [Industrial heat pumps and vapour recompression](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_industrial_hp/) (energy): 3 relationships.

## How they are linked

### 1. Energy flow

*Physical flow · Direct · Energy-intensive industry → Industrial heat pumps and vapour recompression*

Heat pumps and vapour recompression lift process heat.

### 2. Energy flow

*Physical flow · Direct · Industrial heat pumps and vapour recompression → Energy-intensive industry*

Heat pumps supply process steam and heat.

### 3. Price link: electricity cost

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

Heat pumps run on electricity, so the ratio of power to gas prices decides their payback. The industrial power proxy correlates at -0.03 monthly with the heat pump index, as equipment prices follow manufacturing costs, not tariffs.

- **-0.03** monthly change correlation
- **0.14** 12-month change correlation
- **0.71** fitted elasticity

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