Emergency measures to protect energy consumers during the Covid-19 pandemic: A global review and critical analysis

The Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent lockdown exacerbated energy poverty and insecurity worldwide. Many governments introduced emergency measures to protect energy consumers during confinement. This article reviews and classifies the policies implemented in several jurisdictions around the world...

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Autores principales: Mastropietro, Paolo, Rodilla, Pablo, Batlle, Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32839699
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101678
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description The Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent lockdown exacerbated energy poverty and insecurity worldwide. Many governments introduced emergency measures to protect energy consumers during confinement. This article reviews and classifies the policies implemented in several jurisdictions around the world, identifying potential inefficiencies, but also best practices. According to our analysis, these much-needed relief measures should be based on a proper targeting and a consistent financing.
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spelling pubmed-73236692020-06-30 Emergency measures to protect energy consumers during the Covid-19 pandemic: A global review and critical analysis Mastropietro, Paolo Rodilla, Pablo Batlle, Carlos Energy Res Soc Sci Article The Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent lockdown exacerbated energy poverty and insecurity worldwide. Many governments introduced emergency measures to protect energy consumers during confinement. This article reviews and classifies the policies implemented in several jurisdictions around the world, identifying potential inefficiencies, but also best practices. According to our analysis, these much-needed relief measures should be based on a proper targeting and a consistent financing. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-10 2020-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7323669/ /pubmed/32839699 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101678 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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