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Onshore wind and Unsaturated polyester resins

Their prices have moved together.

Onshore wind (energy) and Unsaturated polyester resins (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: composite end use

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Wind turbine nacelle covers, some blades and many other composite parts use polyester or epoxy resins with glass fibre. The wind proxy is a general US turbine and generator price index, not a composites series, so monthly moves correlate at only 0.09.

  • 0.09 monthly change correlation
  • 0.10 12-month change correlation
  • 0.67 fitted elasticity

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