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

ABSTRACT: 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

SUBMITTER: Werth A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7580598 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature