Energy balance may refer to: *

Earth's energy balance Earth's energy budget accounts for the balance between the energy that Earth receives from the Sun and the energy the Earth loses back into outer space. Smaller energy sources, such as Earth's internal heat, are taken into consideration, but ma ...

, the relationship between incoming solar radiation, outgoing radiation of all types, and global temperature change. *

Energy accounting Energy accounting is a system used to measure, analyze and report the energy consumption of different activities on a regular basis. This is done to improve energy efficiency, and to monitor the environment impact of energy consumption. Energy man ...

, a system used within industry, where measuring and analyzing the energy consumption of different activities is done to improve energy efficiency *

Energy balance (biology) In biology, energy homeostasis, or the homeostatic control of energy balance, is a biological process that involves the coordinated homeostatic regulation of food intake (energy inflow) and energy expenditure (energy outflow). The human brain, parti ...

, a measurement of the biological homeostasis of energy in living systems * Energy balance (energy economics), verification and analysis of emergence, transformation and use of energy sources within an economic zone *

Energy economics Energy economics is a broad scientific subject area which includes topics related to supply and use of energy in societies. Considering the cost of energy services and associated value gives economic meaning to the efficiency at which energy c ...

, where the energy balance of a country is an aggregate presentation of all human activities related to energy, except for natural and biological processes * ''Energy Economics'' (journal), a scientific journal published by Elsevier under its "North Holland" imprint *

Energy returned on energy invested In energy economics and ecological energetics, energy return on investment (EROI), also sometimes called energy returned on energy invested (ERoEI), is the ratio of the amount of usable energy (the ''exergy'') delivered from a particular energy re ...

(EROEI), ratio of the amount of usable energy acquired from a particular energy resource to the amount of energy expended to obtain that energy resource *

First law of thermodynamics The first law of thermodynamics is a formulation of the law of conservation of energy, adapted for thermodynamic processes. It distinguishes in principle two forms of energy transfer, heat and thermodynamic work for a system of a constant amoun ...

, according to which energy cannot be created or destroyed, only modified in form *

Groundwater energy balance The groundwater energy balance is the energy balance of a groundwater body in terms of incoming hydraulic energy associated with groundwater inflow into the body, energy associated with the outflow, energy conversion into heat due to friction of fl ...

, comparing a groundwater body in terms of incoming hydraulic energy associated with groundwater inflow and outflow

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