Definition: Gross inland energy consumption

Category: Energy

1) Gross inland energy consumption (GIC) is a measure of the energy inputs to the economy, calculated as total domestic energy production plus energy imports and changes in stocks minus energy exports (including fuel supplied to international marine bunkers). Because different fuels have different energy contents and are measured in various units, it is necessary to convert all fuels to a single meaningful unit (e.g. oil equivalents).

2) Gross inland energy consumption represents the quantity of energy necessary to satisfy the inland consumption of the geographical entity under consideration, including energy consumed in the form of electricity, heating and transport. It is the sum of gross inland consumption of solid fuels, liquid fuels, gas, nuclear energy, renewable energies, and other fuels. The gross inland consumption of an individual energy carrier is calculated by adding primary production and recovered products of energy together with total imports and changes in stocks minus total exports and bunkers. It corresponds to the addition of consumption, distribution losses, transformation losses and statistical diff erences. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/coded_files/sustainable_europe_2005.pdf#page=99