Sentence examples for gross energy consumption from inspiring English sources
EU member states rely on energy imports for more than half (53%) of its gross energy consumption, notes the foundation's executive officer, Jocelyn Blériot.
These results suggest that the benefits of wearing a WS are not only improvement in swimming performance and propulsion efficiency, but reduction in gross energy consumption in the swimming portion of triathlon races.
Those numbers were also used for the year 2020, although the gross energy consumption in Germany is expected to decrease about 6% until then [11].
The overall gross energy consumption and the full load hours per year show a good consistency with numbers extracted from literature.
With regards to the development in the past years, this expectation was questionable [4], which was why we neglected this decrease of the gross energy consumption in our calculations.
According to the German 'National Renewable Energy Action Plan' (NREAP) [9], 18% of gross energy consumption shall be covered by RES in 2020, an increase of ca. 8% compared with the figure of 2009.
Sensitivity analysis showed that gross inland energy consumption had the highest sensitivity to GHG emissions.
The ED is calculated as net imports divided by the sum of gross inland energy consumption plus bunkers.
The rule 'sustainable use of renewable resources' is addressed by the classical indicator 'share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption' and the new indicator 'area under cultivation of energy crops'.
For the EU 27 with an actual gross inland energy consumption of 1.9 Gtoe/a, the bioenergy contribution of 4% is estimated to increase sustainably to almost 15% or 300 Mtoe/a of the energy consumption expected for 2030 [4, 5].
