Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic to the Sustainability of the Energy Sector

I Siksnelyte-Butkiene - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
In order to control the COVID-19 pandemic, the governments of the world started to
implement measures regarding social distance and social contacts, including closures of …

Global changes in electricity consumption during COVID-19

E Buechler, S Powell, T Sun, N Astier, C Zanocco… - IScience, 2022 - cell.com
Understanding how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered electricity consumption can
provide insights into society's responses to future shocks and other extreme events. We …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of COVID-19 on household energy consumption in England and Wales from April 2020 to March 2022

E Zapata-Webborn, E McKenna, M Pullinger… - Energy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way people lived, worked, and studied around the
world, with direct consequences for domestic energy use. This study assesses the impact of …

Energy market prices in times of COVID-19: The case of electricity and natural gas in Spain

LM Abadie - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a strong impact on the economies of all countries,
negatively affecting almost all sectors. This paper compares Spanish electricity and natural …

Do COVID-19 lock-downs affect business cycle? Analysis using energy consumption cycle clock for selected European countries

T Kufel, P Kufel, M Błażejowski - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
On 11 March 2020, the WHO declared the COVID-19 epidemic to be a global pandemic.
This was a consequence of the rapid increase in the number of people with positive test …

[HTML][HTML] Quantification of operational flexibility from a portfolio of flexible energy resources

D Gusain, M Cvetković, P Palensky - … Journal of Electrical Power & Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Flexibility will be required as more renewable generation is integrated in the power system.
Therefore, entities such as Flexibility Service Providers (FSPs) have emerged who can …

The growth of distributed generation and associated challenges: A Great Britain case study

S Gordon, C McGarry, K Bell - IET Renewable Power …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Great Britain has reached high penetrations of distributed generation (DG). Historically,
there has been a lack of technical requirements for DG to provide system support and for …

Future assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the electricity market based on a stochastic socioeconomic model

VBF Costa, LC Pereira, JVB Andrade, BD Bonatto - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a time-series stochastic socioeconomic model for analyzing the impact
of the pandemic on the regulated distribution electricity market. The proposed methodology …

A data-driven clustering analysis for the impact of COVID-19 on the electricity consumption pattern of Zhejiang province, China

Z Zhang, A Cheshmehzangi, SP Ardakani - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted electricity consumption patterns and such an impact
cannot be analyzed by simple data analytics. In China, specifically, city lock-down policies …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of public health measures on household energy consumption: The case of the UK COVID-19 tier system

KF Mayr, P Agnolucci - Energy Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
Substantial attention has been paid to household energy consumption during COVID-19
lockdowns, however, there exists a dearth of studies on the impact of more granular health …