Impacts of COVID-19 on energy demand and consumption: Challenges, lessons and emerging opportunities

Jiang, Peng; Fan, Yee Van; Klemeš, Jiří Jaromír

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116441

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“…South Africa peak demand, energy market [3] electricity demand and power system operation USA, China, Italy, Japan, UK and Brazil system operators, system maintenance, voltage violation, peak demand and demand ramp rate, energy market/prices [18] energy and AI technologies USA, China, Germany and India stability, load forecasting, energy market/prices [2] electricity industry worldwide system operators, voltage violation, load forecasting, energy market/prices [16] renewable energy worldwide energy policies [38] plastic waste, energy and environment worldwide energy market/prices, energy policies [39] energy demand and consumption worldwide peak demand and demand ramp rate, energy market/prices, energy policies…”

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Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Energy Systems and Electric Power Grids—A Review of the Challenges Ahead

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The COVID-19 pandemic represents not just a global health crisis, but may signal the beginning of a new era of economic activity, the potential consequences of which we currently do not fully understand. In this context, the mid-to-long-range impacts of the pandemic on the energy sector have been studied extensively in the last few months. Despite these efforts, the pandemic still raises many open questions concerning the long-term operation and planning of power systems. For instance, how will the pandemic affect the integration of renewable energy sources? Should current power system expansion plans change in light of the COVID-19 pandemic? What new tools should be provided to support system operators during global health crises? It is the purpose of this paper to better understand the many aspects of these open questions by reviewing the relevant recent literature and by analyzing measured data. We point out the main challenges that the pandemic introduced by presenting patterns of electricity generation and demand, frequency deviations, and load forecasting. Moreover, we suggest directions for future research that may assist in coping with the mentioned challenges. We hope that this paper will trigger fruitful discussions and encourage further research on these important emerging topics.

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“…Europe [3,6,7,11,12,18,30,32,33,39] Italy, France, Germany, Spain Asia [3,5,10,18,[27][28][29]34,35,39] China, India, Japan Africa [19,36,37,39] South Africa Australia [40] Table 3. Search expressions that were used in the literature review.…”

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Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Energy Systems and Electric Power Grids—A Review of the Challenges Ahead

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“…Since the outbreak of COVID-19, researchers worldwide have been carrying out a lot of research works on it. These researches can be mainly divided into the following six categories: (1) to study the impact of COVID-19 on human physical and mental health from a biomedical perspective ( Tsamakis et al, 2020 , Xiong et al, 2020 , Pascoal et al, 2021 ); (2) to study the impact of COVID-19 on human production, life, and social and economic development from a sociological perspective ( Takyi and Bentum-Ennin, 2020 , Qian et al, 2021 , Shang et al, 2021 , Beiderbeck et al, 2021 , Jiang et al, 2021 ); (3) to creatively propose new mathematical models or revise some existing models based on relevant data for predicting and analyzing the development of the epidemic in a specific area ( Vianello et al, 2021 , Willis et al, 2021 , Mun and Geng, 2021 , Al-qaness et al, 2021 , Manenti et al, 2020 , Hu et al, 2020 , Cao et al, 2020 , Mojjada et al, 2020 , Yang et al, 2020 ); (4) to analyze the spatial-temporal characteristics of the epidemic in a specific area ( Lv and Cheng, 2020 , Feng et al, 2020 ); (5) to explore related factors which may affect the development of the epidemic ( Hu et al, 2021 ); (6) to evaluate the effects of different epidemic prevention measures ( Leung et al, 2020 , Hasnain et al, 2020 ). In terms of the research purpose and content, the third, the fourth, and the fifth categories are more relevant to the work carried out in this paper.…”

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Analysis on the spatio-temporal characteristics of COVID-19 in mainland China

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COVID-19 has brought many unfavorable effects on humankind and taken away many lives. Only by understanding it more profoundly and comprehensively can it be soundly defeated. This paper is dedicated to studying the spatial-temporal characteristics of the epidemic development at the provincial-level in mainland China and the civic-level in Hubei Province. Moreover, a correlation analysis on the possible factors that cause the spatial differences in the epidemic's degree is conducted. After completing these works, three different methods are adopted to fit the daily-change tendencies of the number of confirmed cases in mainland China and Hubei Province. The three methods are the Logical Growth Model (LGM), Polynomial fitting, and Fully Connected Neural Network (FCNN). The analysis results on the spatial-temporal differences and their influencing factors show that: (1) The Chinese government has contained the domestic epidemic in early March 2020, indicating that the number of newly diagnosed cases has almost zero increase since then. (2) Throughout the entire mainland of China, effective manual intervention measures such as community isolation and urban isolation have significantly weakened the influence of the subconscious factors that may impact the spatial differences of the epidemic. (3) The classification results based on the number of confirmed cases also prove the effectiveness of the isolation measures adopted by the governments at all levels in China from another aspect. It is reflected in the small monthly grade changes (even no change) in the provinces of mainland China and the cities in Hubei Province during the study period. Based on the experimental results of curve-fitting and considering the time cost and goodness of fit comprehensively, the Polynomial( Degree = 18) model is recommended in this paper for fitting the daily-change tendency of the number of confirmed cases.

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“…More than this, knowing the situation of the healthcare system, they imposed the heaviest measures in the EU (see Due to the novelty of the theme, only a few researchers have studied the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on electricity consumption. Some think that the pandemic can offer a new opportunity in changing the patterns of energy production and consumption [43,44], while others show that a diversified generation mix can help in properly forecasting the electricity demand in a crisis [45].…”

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The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Electricity Consumption in Romania

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The COVID-19 pandemic obliged the Romanian government to take drastic measures to contain the virus. More than this, they imposed the heaviest restrictions in the EU. For more than a month, during the lockdown period, everything stopped: schools and universities had only online classes, national and international flights and gatherings were forbidden, and many restrictions for travel were imposed. This paper analyzes the changes that occurred in electricity consumption linked with economic growth, during the pandemic, in Romania. For a better understanding of the correlations between gross domestic product (GDP) and electricity consumption (EC) in different economic contexts, the period 2008–2020 was divided into three series: the 2008–2012 financial crisis and the post-crisis recovery period, the 2013–2019 period of economic growth, and the Q1–Q3 2020 pandemic period. Using correlation coefficients and regression analysis, the authors found that the GDP decoupled from EC in the first period. The increase in GDP led to an increase in the consumption of electricity and the electricity produced from RESs in the second period. In Q3 2020, the real GDP is different from the calculated GDP, due to the pandemic. In Romania, the electricity consumption decreased within the first nine months of the pandemic due to the economic contraction. The electricity that comes from coal and hydropower plants suffered the biggest decrease. If the electricity that comes from NRESs can be adapted to the economic demands, the quantity of electricity that comes from RESs will be influenced by the climate conditions.

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Impacts of COVID-19 on energy demand and consumption: Challenges, lessons and emerging opportunities

Cited by 377 publications

References 101 publications

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Energy Systems and Electric Power Grids—A Review of the Challenges Ahead

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Energy Systems and Electric Power Grids—A Review of the Challenges Ahead

Analysis on the spatio-temporal characteristics of COVID-19 in mainland China

The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Electricity Consumption in Romania

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