Two members of the committee, Stefansson and Lund, have discussed the issue with Arni Ragnarsson, who prepared the forms used at the WGC-95. This report is prepared by Valgardur Stefansson, John Lund, and Arni Ragnarsson. General overview Primary energy is defined as energy in its naturally occurring form before conversion, transmission and distribution to end-use forms. The World Energy Council reports primary energy consumption for different countries, based on rules for conversion of energy sources into primary energy. This is suitable for comparing consumption of different energy sources in different countries.
Final energy is defined as the total energy consumed by end-users.
It does not include losses in generation, transmission and distribution of energy, or losses in energy production plants. This is suitable for comparing energy consumption in different utilization sectors. . This means that the calculation methods used for the country reports for the WGC-95 will be applied by the IGA in the future. Otherwise, temperature is used. The outlet temperature is the actual disposal temperature.