Global economic crisis, energy use, CO2 emissions, and policy roadmap amid COVID-19

Aktar, Most. Asikha; Alam, Md. Mahmudul; Al‐Amin, Abul Quasem

doi:10.1016/j.spc.2020.12.029

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“…These aspirations should be at the heart of the health inclinations of the global community in the post-COVID-19 era ( 153 ). Besides, psychosocial risk mitigation should be a key focus, and policymakers can give priority to working on a simple yet cost-effective organizational exercise to enhance disaster coping mechanisms ( 149 , 150 ).…”

Section: Integrated Strategic Approaches Against the Covid-19 Pandemic And Lesson Learned In Combating The Crises Mirroring Ways To Safegmentioning

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Expected Impacts of COVID-19: Considering Resource-Limited Countries and Vulnerable Population

Gashaw

Hagos

Sisay

2021

Front. Public Health

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Coronavirus disease in 2019 emerged in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019. After a month, it was declared a global threat to public health. The effects of the pandemic could be socio-economic, undermining the health system and risking livelihoods. Vulnerability to this infection has been associated with underlying comorbidities such as hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, cancer, and compromised immune systems. Co-morbidity has been common to the elderly, the disabled, and the homeless. In addition, more severe coronavirus disease outcomes have been reported in older males than females. Nonetheless, multiple variables are related to the concept of cultural gender that should be taken into account as women in more affected sectors are economically disadvantageous and over-represented. Similarly, although children are not the face of this pandemic, calamity has a profound effect on their welfare, especially for those living in poor and inconvenient situations. Moreover, the economic influence could be profound and universal when viewed through a migration lens as it is exacerbating xenophobic and discriminatory treatment. Protection measures to mitigate the outbreak of a pandemic, such as social distancing, may reduce social support for certain categories relied on for their day-to-day activities. The mental health of people would definitely be affected by the additional psychosocial burden of the pandemic, particularly in vulnerable groups. Integrated approaches are therefore mandatory to assist these groups and contain the pandemic.

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Section: Integrated Strategic Approaches Against the Covid-19 Pandemic And Lesson Learned In Combating The Crises Mirroring Ways To Safegmentioning

confidence: 99%

Expected Impacts of COVID-19: Considering Resource-Limited Countries and Vulnerable Population

Gashaw

Hagos

Sisay

2021

Front. Public Health

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“…In articles and reports on COVID-19 pandemic issues in the context of energy and energy use, the problem is usually analysed from a global (e.g., [1][2][3][4]), regional (e.g., [5,6]) or national point of view. The COVID-19 impacts on the power systems and markets in European countries were considered in [7].…”

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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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“…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

2021

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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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Global economic crisis, energy use, CO2 emissions, and policy roadmap amid COVID-19

Cited by 220 publications

References 48 publications

Expected Impacts of COVID-19: Considering Resource-Limited Countries and Vulnerable Population

Expected Impacts of COVID-19: Considering Resource-Limited Countries and Vulnerable Population

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

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

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