What does EROEI stand for?

Energy Return on Energy Invested (alternative energy sources)

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The Energy Return on Energy Invested (ERoEI) provides one measure of the efficiency of energy procurement and is quite simply defined as: Energy procured / Energy used to procure energy The chart shows how the proportion of net energy available for society to use varies with ERoEI.

United States: The energy efficiency of energy procurement systems

In the technologies involved with energy resource extraction, such costs are often reflected in the ratio of energy return on energy invested (EROEI).

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