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Geothermal power plants and Steam turbines and thermal power plants

Their prices have moved together.

Geothermal power plants (energy) and Steam turbines and thermal power plants (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: main input

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Geothermal plants use steam or binary turbines similar to other thermal plants. The US steam turbine index overlaps the turbine proxy, sharing a manufacturing cycle: monthly moves correlate at 0.68 and yearly moves at 0.53.

  • 0.68 monthly change correlation
  • 0.53 12-month change correlation
  • 1.42 fitted elasticity

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