This brief report on New York city's energy consumption rates details how mitigation responses to COVID-19 have contributed to overall drops in commercial energy demands. To note, even despite increases in residential household energy consumption, overall electricity consumption has dropped 13% from pre-COVID-19 shelter-in-place (or COVID-19 mitigation) efforts.
Source
Lee, A. & DeVilbiss, J. (2020, May 6). Daily electricity demand in New York falls about 13% after COVID-19 mitigation efforts. Today in Energy: U.S. Energy Information Administration. Retrieved from https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=43635
April Lee and Jonathan DeVilbiss, "Daily electricity demand in New York falls about 13% after COVID-19 mitigation efforts", contributed by Briana Leone, Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 24 June 2020, accessed 29 November 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/daily-electricity-demand-new-york-falls-about-13-after-covid-19-mitigation-efforts
Critical Commentary
This brief report on New York city's energy consumption rates details how mitigation responses to COVID-19 have contributed to overall drops in commercial energy demands. To note, even despite increases in residential household energy consumption, overall electricity consumption has dropped 13% from pre-COVID-19 shelter-in-place (or COVID-19 mitigation) efforts.