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Decarbonizing the energy supply one pandemic at a time
This study explores different energy consumption vectors during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal. Most of the workforce started working from home and resource consumption significantly shifted towards the domestic sector. The ensuing confinement protocols caused a shift in everyda...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9554235/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36246728 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112644 |
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author | Russo, M.A. Ruivo, L. Carvalho, D. Martins, N. Monteiro, A. |
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description | This study explores different energy consumption vectors during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal. Most of the workforce started working from home and resource consumption significantly shifted towards the domestic sector. The ensuing confinement protocols caused a shift in everyday life, which in turn significantly altered the energy supply and demand landscape. This event, although catastrophic in terms of loss of human life and economic development, can provide us with valuable data to study the potential of new strategies to achieve EU 2050 Energy goals. It was investigated whether the pandemic has opened a path and provided us with a partial answer to decarbonization in the form of home office practices as a possible energy efficiency measure. The present study shows that, in Portugal, there was a 15.7% reduction of primary energy consumption (accounting for electricity, natural gas and transport fuels) compared to 2019. The data suggest that actions targeting reduced mobility, such as home office practices and the decentralization of the workforce, could be a relevant energy efficiency measure. |
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spelling | pubmed-95542352022-10-12 Decarbonizing the energy supply one pandemic at a time Russo, M.A. Ruivo, L. Carvalho, D. Martins, N. Monteiro, A. Energy Policy Article This study explores different energy consumption vectors during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal. Most of the workforce started working from home and resource consumption significantly shifted towards the domestic sector. The ensuing confinement protocols caused a shift in everyday life, which in turn significantly altered the energy supply and demand landscape. This event, although catastrophic in terms of loss of human life and economic development, can provide us with valuable data to study the potential of new strategies to achieve EU 2050 Energy goals. It was investigated whether the pandemic has opened a path and provided us with a partial answer to decarbonization in the form of home office practices as a possible energy efficiency measure. The present study shows that, in Portugal, there was a 15.7% reduction of primary energy consumption (accounting for electricity, natural gas and transport fuels) compared to 2019. The data suggest that actions targeting reduced mobility, such as home office practices and the decentralization of the workforce, could be a relevant energy efficiency measure. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-12 2021-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9554235/ /pubmed/36246728 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112644 Text en © 2021 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. |
spellingShingle | Article Russo, M.A. Ruivo, L. Carvalho, D. Martins, N. Monteiro, A. Decarbonizing the energy supply one pandemic at a time |
title | Decarbonizing the energy supply one pandemic at a time |
title_full | Decarbonizing the energy supply one pandemic at a time |
title_fullStr | Decarbonizing the energy supply one pandemic at a time |
title_full_unstemmed | Decarbonizing the energy supply one pandemic at a time |
title_short | Decarbonizing the energy supply one pandemic at a time |
title_sort | decarbonizing the energy supply one pandemic at a time |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9554235/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36246728 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112644 |
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