Flow batteries and Zinc

Flow batteries needs zinc; their prices have moved together.

Flow batteries (energy) and Zinc (commodity): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Material need

Physical flow · Direct · Zinc → Flow batteries

Building or running Flow batteries needs zinc.

2. Price link: electrode metal

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Zinc-bromine and zinc-iron flow batteries plate zinc during charging. The battery proxy is a broad US index dominated by lithium products, so it shows no link to zinc, with monthly moves at -0.03.

• -0.03 monthly change correlation
• 0.01 12-month change correlation
• 0.25 fitted elasticity

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