Abstract:Electricity planning is a key strategic business in the mining industry. Thus, this paper assesses the electricity demand in the Brazilian iron ore industry with an emphasis on electricity prices and the production value chain to address the sector-specific behavioral patterns, using daily data from December 2018 to April 2020. By employing impulse response functions and variance decomposition analysis, the paper shows that electricity demand is primarily determined by internal factors of the ore production ra… Show more
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