# Energy-intensive industry and Vinyl chloride monomer

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/energy-intensive-industry-and-vinyl-chloride-monomer/

[Energy-intensive industry](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_heavy_industry/) (energy) and [Vinyl chloride monomer](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/vcm/) (chemical): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: power cost

*Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways*

Chlor-alkali electrolysis uses a lot of electricity, so power prices feed into chlorine and VCM. The US industrial power index moves with the proxy at only 0.02 monthly and 0.43 yearly, because power is bought on contracts.

- **0.02** monthly change correlation
- **0.43** 12-month change correlation
- **0.79** fitted elasticity

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