Energy is both a basic resource needed for economic growth and an essential tool for economic recovery. The topic of resilience is becoming increasingly prominent in the energy-economic domain and has also entered policy discourse. Yet the measuring method of resilience based on post-disruption events and the relationship between energy consumption and economic recovery are far from settled. This paper develops the idea of resilience and proposes a model to evaluate the economic recovery ability of an economy from the perspective of energy consumption. It also proposes a decoupling model to address the impact of energy-related elements on economic recovery. These ideas are then used for a preliminary empirical analysis of 14 countries against the context of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The analysis showed that developing countries generally performed better than developed countries, that energy consumption is not a necessity for promoting economic recovery, and that energy-economic decoupling has a positive effect on economic recovery.