The Impact of Energy Commodity Prices on Selected Clean Energy Metal Prices

Abstract

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Paris Agreement has been announced as a crucial step towards combating the global threat of climate change. In the light of ambitious plans for further renewable energy sources development, high demand for nonenergy materials critical for RES is greatly expected. In conclusion, future energy security will be surely based on nonenergy commodities critical for them. As this article directly relates to issues related to new technologies and energy security in new form, the main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of energy commodity prices, namely crude oil, natural gas and coal prices on selected metal prices such as aluminium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, nickel, silver, tin, or zinc, both before and over the Paris Agreement period. We are looking for new insights in terms of relationships between traditional fossil fuels and metals used in clean energy technologies potentially established or strengthened shortly after the Paris Agreement was adopted. Currently, the analyses of the impact of institutional conditions such as global agreements (institutional factors) on the emerging or strengthening of relationships between energy and nonenergy resources are very limited. Hence, an autoregressive distributed lag and error correction model are employed.

Keywords

• energy security
• crude oil
• natural gas
• coal
• clean energy metals
• renewable energy sources (RES)