TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on residential energy consumption: A global literature review
T2 - a global literature review
AU - Li, Hongyang
AU - Jiang, Tingting
AU - Wu, Tongyuan
AU - Skitmore, Martin
AU - Talebian, Nima
PY - 2023/1/23
Y1 - 2023/1/23
N2 - The outbreak of COVID-19 makes researchers notice some new points and change their focus, such as the economies of scale for residential energy use, energy dependency of societies, etc. This paper provides a bibliometric analysis of 497 articles by VOSviewer, finding existing studies of building energy use during COVID-19 could be summarized into four keywords, i.e. building occupants, coronavirus, sustainability and monitor & management. Significant increases in residential energy consumption are found with the increased in-home-activity duration, while the growth rate varies between different neighborhoods, different times of day and different usage of energy. Attitudes vary toward the changing trend in the post-pandemic period, and the impacts of lockdown, new confirmed cases, social distancing, etc. on residential energy consumption are given special attention in recent studies. Policy implications are concluded for maintaining normal operation of residential energy systems under the shock of public health emergencies.
AB - The outbreak of COVID-19 makes researchers notice some new points and change their focus, such as the economies of scale for residential energy use, energy dependency of societies, etc. This paper provides a bibliometric analysis of 497 articles by VOSviewer, finding existing studies of building energy use during COVID-19 could be summarized into four keywords, i.e. building occupants, coronavirus, sustainability and monitor & management. Significant increases in residential energy consumption are found with the increased in-home-activity duration, while the growth rate varies between different neighborhoods, different times of day and different usage of energy. Attitudes vary toward the changing trend in the post-pandemic period, and the impacts of lockdown, new confirmed cases, social distancing, etc. on residential energy consumption are given special attention in recent studies. Policy implications are concluded for maintaining normal operation of residential energy systems under the shock of public health emergencies.
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2169112
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2169112
M3 - Literature review
SN - 0964-0568
SP - 1
EP - 22
JO - Planning Outlook
JF - Planning Outlook
ER -
