# Natural gas and Recuperators and regenerators

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/natural-gas-and-recuperators-and-regenerators/

[Natural gas](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/natural_gas/) (energy) and [Recuperators and regenerators](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_recuperators/) (energy): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: fuel saved

*Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways*

By preheating combustion air with exhaust heat, recuperators cut the gas a furnace burns, so dearer gas shortens payback. Yearly moves correlate at 0.56 with European gas, a moderate link driven by shared industrial cycles.

- **0.01** monthly change correlation
- **0.56** 12-month change correlation
- **0.13** fitted elasticity

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