Generators and alternators and Steel

Generators and alternators needs steel; their prices have moved together.

Generators and alternators (energy) and Steel (commodity): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Material need

Physical flow · Direct · Steel → Generators and alternators

Building or running Generators and alternators needs steel.

2. Price link: electrical steel

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Stator and rotor cores are stacks of thin electrical steel sheet, and frames are steel too. Yearly moves correlate at 0.21 with the steel index, a weak link because electrical steel is a specialised grade with its own supply and price.

• 0.00 monthly change correlation
• 0.21 12-month change correlation
• 0.53 fitted elasticity

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