COVID-19: Impact analysis and recommendations for power sector operation
COVID-19: Impact analysis and recommendations for power sector operation
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DOI：
10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115739
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发表时间：
2020-12-01
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影响因子：
11.2
通讯作者：
Subramaniam, Umashankar
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作者：
Elavarasan, Rajvikram Madurai;Shafiullah, G. M.;Subramaniam, Umashankar
受新冠肺炎疫情影响，电力需求大幅减少。世界各国政府被迫减少商业活动，以尽量减少冠状病毒的威胁。由于COVID-19造成的这种持续情况改变了全球的生活方式，因为人们大多呆在家里，尽可能在家工作。因此，住宅用电需求显著增加，而商业和工业用电需求则大幅减少。这种毁灭性的情况给电力部门的技术和财务活动带来了新的挑战，因此，世界上大多数公用事业公司都启动了一项灾害管理计划，以应对这一持续的挑战/威胁。因此，本研究旨在调查2019冠状病毒病期间电力系统的全球情景，以及公用事业公司面临的社会经济和技术问题。然后，本研究进一步以印度电力系统为例，探讨了目前管理消费者负荷需求所面临的情景、问题和挑战，包括公用事业/电力部门为电力系统的平稳运行所采取的行动。最后，提出了一套建议，以支持世界各地的政府/决策者/公用事业公司不仅克服当前的危机，而且克服未来不可预见的类似大流行的情况。
The demand of electricity has been reduced significantly due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Governments around the world were compelled to reduce the business activity in response to minimize the threat of coronavirus. This ongoing situation due to COVID-19 has changed the lifestyle globally as people are mostly staying home and working from home if possible. Hence, there is a significant increase in residential load demand while there is a substantial decrease in commercial and industrial loads. This devastating situation creates new challenges in the technical and financial activities of the power sector and hence most of the utilities around the world initiated a disaster management plan to tackle this ongoing challenges/threats. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the global scenarios of power systems during COVID-19 along with the socio-economic and technical issues faced by the utilities. Then, this study further scrutinized the Indian power system as a case study and explored scenarios, issues and challenges currently being faced to manage the consumer load demand, including the actions taken by the utilities/power sector for the smooth operation of the power system. Finally, a set of recommendations are presented to support the government/ policymakers/utilities around the world not only to overcome the current crisis but also to overcome future unfore-seeable pandemic alike scenario.