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Transformers and power electronics and Underground, submarine and superconducting cables

Their prices have moved together.

Transformers and power electronics (energy) and Underground, submarine and superconducting cables (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: shared grid demand

Cost and price · Strong · Both ways

Cables and transformers are bought together for grid expansion and renewable connections. Monthly moves correlate at 0.36 and yearly at 0.74, a common driver from utility spending and from shared copper and aluminium costs.

  • 0.36 monthly change correlation
  • 0.74 12-month change correlation
  • 1.09 fitted elasticity

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