Effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the Brazilian electricity consumption patterns

Carvalho, Mónica; Delgado, Danielle Bandeira de Mello; Lima, Karollyne Marques de; Cancela, Marianna de Camargo; Siqueira, Camila Alves dos Santos; Souza, Dyego Leandro Bezerra de

doi:10.1002/er.5877

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“…5 Also, Germany faced a lesser volatile electricity market due to its larger DG share in the electricity supply sectors and their static B2B electricity markets. [72][73][74] Although all mentioned factors can affect the quality of the pandemic impact on the electricity sector, the most important factor is known the death rate and death toll as Reference 12 states that although France has a smaller electricity-based share in the economy (27% related to 45% in Germany), it faced away higher volatile electricity market due to its larger death toll and infected population which is aligned with our findings and results. 12,[75][76][77][78]…”

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Retracted: The impact of COVID‐19 on the electricity sector in Spain: An econometric approach based on prices

Norouzi

Rubens

Enevoldsen

et al. 2020

Intl J of Energy Research

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the COVID-19 pandemic has been the greatest challenge to humanity since World War II. Spain is one of the countries experiencing severe consequences from the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. In such a situation, when the population is quarantined, hospitals are crowded, and industries are shutting down; energy supply becomes a critical and "hard to predict" service. In this way, the study of the impact of COVID-19 on the selling price of electricity in Spain is highlighted more comprehensively. Given the high level of uncertainty in global energy markets, there is a research gap that needs to be filled, that is, the creation of new decision support mechanisms that can reduce risks and ensure more significant forecasting for investments and energy management to deal with seemingly unprecedented effects experienced through the current pandemic. This study

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Section: Methodssupporting

confidence: 88%

Retracted: The impact of COVID‐19 on the electricity sector in Spain: An econometric approach based on prices

Norouzi

Rubens

Enevoldsen

et al. 2020

Intl J of Energy Research

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“…Ruiz and colleagues [1] found that electricity consumption in China increased due to large quarantine and health service demand. Other studies ascribed the decrease in energy consumption to governmental interventions in the USA and Canada [9] , [11] , [12] , [13] , in Brazil [14] and in Europe [7] , [15] , [16] , [17] .…”

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Impact analysis of COVID-19 responses on energy grid dynamics in Europe

2021

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When COVID-19 pandemic spread in Europe, governments imposed unprecedented confinement measures with mostly unknown repercussions on contemporary societies. In some cases, a considerable drop in energy consumption was observed, anticipating a scenario of sizable low-cost energy generation, from renewable sources, expected only for years later. In this paper, the impact of governmental restrictions on electrical load, generation and transmission was investigated in 16 European countries. Using the indices provided by the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker, precise restriction types were found to correlate with the load drop. Then the European grid was analysed to assess how the load drop was balanced by the change in generation and transmission patterns. The same restriction period from 2020 was compared to previous years, accounting for yearly variability with ad hoc statistical technique. As a result, generation was found to be heavily impacted in most countries with significant load drop. Overall, generation from nuclear, and fossil coal and gas sources was reduced, in favour of renewables and, in some countries, fossil gas. Moreover, intermittent renewables generation increased in most countries without indicating an exceptional amount of curtailments. Finally, the European grid helped balance those changes with an increase in both energy exports and imports, with some net exporting countries becoming net importers, notably Germany, and vice versa. Together, these findings show the far reaching implications of the COVID-19 crisis, and contribute to the understanding and planning of higher renewables share scenarios, which will become more prevalent in the battle against climate change.

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“…In [11], it was investigated how COVID-19 cases affected Indian energy consumption during the pandemic crisis by testing whether the lockdown had a positive impact on energy consumption, also showing that richer regions were quicker to recover their energy consumption to the level before the lockdown. An analysis of the impact of physical distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic regarding mobility on the energy consumption trends for the Brazilian energy system and its subsystems was presented in [12]. A simulation study of the impact of confined measures due to COVID-19 on the energy demand for buildings in a virtual neighbourhood (district) in Sweden was presented in [13].…”

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Impact of the Lockdown during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Electricity Use by Residential Users

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated lockdown can be regarded as a forced social experiment, the results of which show how to use energy under specific conditions. During this period, there was a reduction in electricity consumption at the level of the power system, but a different specificity distinguishes the group of household users. The article aims at presenting and analysing the identified issues concerning residential electricity users based on the experience from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Data from energy meters from almost 7000 flats in Warsaw’s housing estates during the lockdown in 2020 and the analogous period before the pandemic were used. The analysis showed that, on average, residential users staying practically the whole day in their flats increased their energy consumption, but without increasing their average daily peak power, smoothing the profile in the morning hours to the level reaching the peak power that had occurred in the analogous period before the lockdown. The peak power of the sections feeding the different numbers of dwellings also remained practically unchanged during the lockdown compared to the pre-pandemic period. The pressure to work and educate remotely should contribute to an increase in the digital competence of society, which may result in an increased interest in new forms of activity and cooperation based on demand-side response and prosumption mechanisms, with digital settlements for energy exchange and services.

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Effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the Brazilian electricity consumption patterns

Cited by 90 publications

References 16 publications

Retracted: The impact of COVID‐19 on the electricity sector in Spain: An econometric approach based on prices

Retracted: The impact of COVID‐19 on the electricity sector in Spain: An econometric approach based on prices

Impact analysis of COVID-19 responses on energy grid dynamics in Europe

Impact of the Lockdown during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Electricity Use by Residential Users

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