The development of a country must be supported by energy. According to the direction of technical progress, the paper applies a nest CES production function to explore how the energy consumption influences the economic growth. The parameters in model are estimated by using a normalized supply-side system approach and a feasible generalized nonlinear least squares (FGNLS). As industry is an important production sector in Chinese economy, and simultaneously is a main sector of energy consumption, industry is selected as an example to be studied. We collect the relevant data of industry from 1994 to 2011, and give an empirical analysis. The conclusion is that technical progress is biased towards energy, i.e. in the production process, the income share of energy has a increasing trend. And also, we can achieve that energy have an increasing positive impact on the economy, for the output elasticity of energy is growing yearly.