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

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 has caused great challenges to the energy industry. Potential new practices and social forms being facilitated by the pandemics are having impacts on energy demand and consumption. Spatial and temporal heterogeneities of impacts appear gradually due to the dynamics of pandemics and mitigation measures. This paper overviews the impacts and challenges of COVID-19 pandemics on energy demand and consumption and highlights energy-related lessons and emerging opportunities. The discussion on energy-related issues is divided into four main sections: emergency situation and its impacts, environmental impacts and stabilising energy demand, recovering energy demand, and lessons and emerging opportunities. The changes in energy requirements are compared and analysed from multiple perspective

SUBMITTER: Jiang P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7834155 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature