Energy-intensive industry and Waste-heat power (steam Rankine)

Energy flows from energy-intensive industry to waste-heat power (steam Rankine); energy flows from waste-heat power (steam Rankine) to energy-intensive industry; their prices have moved together.

Energy-intensive industry (energy) and Waste-heat power (steam Rankine) (energy): 3 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Energy flow

Physical flow · Direct · Energy-intensive industry → Waste-heat power (steam Rankine)

Cement and steel plants raise steam from waste heat.

2. Energy flow

Physical flow · 95% of flow · Waste-heat power (steam Rankine) → Energy-intensive industry

Recovered power supplies plant demand.

• 95% of Waste-heat power (steam Rankine)'s energy goes this way

3. Price link: power price

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Waste-heat power replaces electricity a plant would buy, so high industrial tariffs shorten payback. The equipment index shows no link with industrial power, at -0.02 monthly, as turbine prices follow the makers' order books.

• -0.02 monthly change correlation
• -0.01 12-month change correlation
• 0.55 fitted elasticity

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