Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.
Nat Commun. 2022 Nov 19;13(1):7122. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34447-7.
The outbreak of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has resulted in changes in productivity and daily life patterns, and as a result electricity consumption (EC) has also shifted. In this paper, we construct estimates of EC changes at the metropolitan level across the continental U.S., including total EC and residential EC during the initial two months of the pandemic. The total and residential data on the state level were broken down into the county level, and then metropolitan level EC estimates were aggregated from the counties included in each metropolitan statistical area (MSA). This work shows that the reduction in total EC is related to the shares of certain industries in an MSA, whereas regardless of the incidence level or economic structure, the residential sector shows a trend of increasing EC across the continental U.S. Since the MSAs account for 86% of the total population and 87% of the total EC of the continental U.S., the analytical result in this paper can provide important guidelines for future social-economic crises.
新型冠状病毒病（COVID-19）的爆发导致了生产力和日常生活模式的变化，因此电力消耗（EC）也发生了转移。在本文中，我们构建了美国大陆大都市层面电力消耗变化的估计值，包括大流行最初两个月的总电力消耗和居民电力消耗。州一级的总数据和居民数据被分解到县一级，然后从每个都市区统计区（MSA）中包含的县汇总大都市层面的 EC 估计值。这项工作表明，总 EC 的减少与 MSA 中某些行业的份额有关，而无论发病率水平或经济结构如何，居民部门在美国大陆的 EC 都呈现出上升趋势。由于 MSA 占美国总人口的 86%和总 EC 的 87%，本文的分析结果可为未来的社会经济危机提供重要指导。
