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Energy return on investment

Quality:

Energy returned on energy invested - ratio of acquired energy to the amount of energy spent to obtain this energy. Article “Energy return on investment” in English Wikipedia has 64 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 59 references and 23 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Energy return on investment”, its content was written by 191 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 601 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 614 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1243 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #10181 in January 2019
  • Global: #24606 in July 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #88720 in September 2013
  • Global: #101778 in December 2014

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Energy return on investment
64.0084
2German (de)
Erntefaktor
57.0298
3Catalan (ca)
Taxa de retorn energètic
35.8399
4Czech (cs)
ERoEI
32.9469
5Japanese (ja)
エネルギー収支比
30.4814
6French (fr)
Taux de retour énergétique
28.6693
7Finnish (fi)
EROEI
27.0713
8Slovak (sk)
EROEI
24.9166
9Portuguese (pt)
Retorno sobre o investimento em energia
24.5683
10Basque (eu)
Itzulera Energetikoaren Tasa
24.366
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Energy return on investment" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Energy return on investment
1 279 961
2German (de)
Erntefaktor
337 252
3Italian (it)
Ritorno energetico sull'investimento energetico
134 742
4Spanish (es)
Tasa de retorno energético
131 791
5Russian (ru)
EROEI
129 153
6French (fr)
Taux de retour énergétique
122 920
7Japanese (ja)
エネルギー収支比
85 790
8Dutch (nl)
Energierendement op investering
52 382
9Czech (cs)
ERoEI
27 628
10Polish (pl)
EROEI
25 729
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Energy return on investment" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Energy return on investment
8 965
2Dutch (nl)
Energierendement op investering
445
3German (de)
Erntefaktor
365
4French (fr)
Taux de retour énergétique
335
5Russian (ru)
EROEI
247
6Spanish (es)
Tasa de retorno energético
216
7Italian (it)
Ritorno energetico sull'investimento energetico
215
8Japanese (ja)
エネルギー収支比
113
9Czech (cs)
ERoEI
59
10Polish (pl)
EROEI
38
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Energy return on investment" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Energy return on investment
191
2German (de)
Erntefaktor
147
3Italian (it)
Ritorno energetico sull'investimento energetico
52
4French (fr)
Taux de retour énergétique
41
5Dutch (nl)
Energierendement op investering
29
6Russian (ru)
EROEI
20
7Czech (cs)
ERoEI
17
8Hebrew (he)
אנרגיה מוחזרת על אנרגיה מושקעת
17
9Spanish (es)
Tasa de retorno energético
16
10Finnish (fi)
EROEI
16
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Energy return on investment" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Erntefaktor
1
2Russian (ru)
EROEI
1
3Catalan (ca)
Taxa de retorn energètic
0
4Czech (cs)
ERoEI
0
5English (en)
Energy return on investment
0
6Spanish (es)
Tasa de retorno energético
0
7Basque (eu)
Itzulera Energetikoaren Tasa
0
8Persian (fa)
نسبت انرژی تولیدشده به مصرف‌شده
0
9Finnish (fi)
EROEI
0
10French (fr)
Taux de retour énergétique
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Energy return on investment" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Energy return on investment
614
2Persian (fa)
نسبت انرژی تولیدشده به مصرف‌شده
162
3Japanese (ja)
エネルギー収支比
91
4Turkish (tr)
EROEI
74
5French (fr)
Taux de retour énergétique
56
6Italian (it)
Ritorno energetico sull'investimento energetico
56
7German (de)
Erntefaktor
49
8Spanish (es)
Tasa de retorno energético
37
9Czech (cs)
ERoEI
36
10Dutch (nl)
Energierendement op investering
20
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
caCatalan
Taxa de retorn energètic
csCzech
ERoEI
deGerman
Erntefaktor
enEnglish
Energy return on investment
esSpanish
Tasa de retorno energético
euBasque
Itzulera Energetikoaren Tasa
faPersian
نسبت انرژی تولیدشده به مصرف‌شده
fiFinnish
EROEI
frFrench
Taux de retour énergétique
heHebrew
אנרגיה מוחזרת על אנרגיה מושקעת
itItalian
Ritorno energetico sull'investimento energetico
jaJapanese
エネルギー収支比
nlDutch
Energierendement op investering
plPolish
EROEI
ptPortuguese
Retorno sobre o investimento em energia
ruRussian
EROEI
skSlovak
EROEI
trTurkish
EROEI
ukUkrainian
EROEI

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#88720
09.2013
Global:
#101778
12.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#10181
01.2019
Global:
#24606
07.2019

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Energy returned on energy invested from Wikipedia articles about Kardashev scale, Societal collapse, Return on investment, World energy consumption and EROI. Whereas reading the article about Energy returned on energy invested people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Net energy gain, Cost of electricity by source, Energy cannibalism, Khazzoom–Brookes postulate and Compressed air energy storage.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ru: EROEI
cs: ERoEI
pl: EROEI
fi: EROEI
tr: EROEI
sk: EROEI
uk: EROEI

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