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Energy-intensive industry and Water

Their prices have moved together.

Energy-intensive industry (energy) and Water (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: pumping energy

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Moving water through canals and pumping groundwater uses a lot of electricity, so power costs set part of the delivered cost of water. The rights index, however, prices scarcity rather than delivery, and shows almost no relation to the industrial power index (0.04 monthly).

  • 0.04 monthly change correlation
  • -0.10 12-month change correlation
  • -0.38 fitted elasticity

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