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Energy-intensive industry and Thermal coal

Their prices have moved together.

Energy-intensive industry (energy) and Thermal coal (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: power plant fuel

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Coal still fuels part of US power and much of power in India and China, where heavy industry is concentrated. Yearly moves correlate at 0.37 with the US industrial tariff, a weak link given coal's falling share of US generation.

  • 0.05 monthly change correlation
  • 0.37 12-month change correlation
  • 0.22 fitted elasticity

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