“…Undoubtedly, the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the electric power industry, which primarily manifested itself in a drop in demand, relatively quarantined production facilities, as well as a looming crisis of non-payment for utilities due to the temporary unemployment of the population. For example, the International Energy Agency estimates that demand will fall by between 2.5% and 5% in 2020 (Karh et al, 2017;Panyukova, 2018;Voronov & Voronov, 2015). Like any logistical system, power supply chains, while acting as the engine of the global economy, are at the same time the guarantor of the stable functioning of socially important sectors of medicine, healthcare, education, and at the same time business activity, which has significant network specialization due to quarantine.…”