IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON HOUSEHOLD POWER CONSUMPTION AND DEMAND

This paper aims to study and overview the impacts and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic on household power consumption or utilization and its demand. It’s required to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has been altered not only everyone’s life but also many business areas, financial sectors and household regions as well. To stop COVID-19, the performed actions made major impacts on daily life all around the world wide. On that note in terms of efforts, self and government of countries implies some restrictions on limiting travelling, social interaction, in-person working, declines commercial, household, and industrial operations. During the pandemic as well as in the covid recovering areas the change in the life is completely shifted that where to use electricity, when to use and up to how to use the power. In response to reduce the virus of COVID-19 the governments of all around the world were forced to minimize the business activities. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the requirement for electricity demand is significantly reduced in industry.[1] The COVID-19 virus makes the lifestyle changes almost all around the world. As it is possible to do work from home, to avoid direct physical contact or to make social distancing. So that significant change arrives in the electric sector, the power consumption makes remarkable increase in a residential area while there is a substantial decline in commercial as well as industrial loads. This destructive situation builds new provocation in the technical, commercial, educational, and financial activities of the electricity sectors. A huge rise in electricity has arrived in the household area because all the work is done from home. [2] In household power consumption the amount of electrical power is expanded, which may induce more power utilization and enlarge its demand. Every region of the world is affected due to COVID-19 crises, whereas the household area gets more affected as it makes changes in the lifestyle.