COVID-19 Lockdown Impact to Electricity Consumption and Generation: The Case of Turkey

Year 2024, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 46 - 65, 30.04.2024

Burhan Baran

https://doi.org/10.46740/alku.1340751

Abstract

In order to reduce the negative impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19), which first emerged in Wuhan, China measures such as distance education and curfews were taken by governments to reduce the negative impact on human health. These precautions had an impact on electricity consumption. Turkey was one of the countries adversely affected by COVID-19. Therefore, the objective of this paper analyze the variation of electricity consumption and generation in Turkey depending on the COVID-19 outbreake. For this purpose, residential, industrial, business and total electricity consumption of six provinces was analyzed in order to examine the variation in electricity consumption in Turkey. Considering the ten months of the year, with March when the first case occurred in 2020 compared to 2019, it was observed that residential electricity consumption increased in the six provinces studied. Industrial electricity consumption decreased in March and the following months, but increased in the following months. On the other hand, it was observed that there was a decrease in the business electricity consumption in almost all ten months. In the per capita electricity generation estimation study in Turkey, it was calculated that the electricity generated in 2020 is 5.89% more than the estimated value obtained by the curve fitting method. In addition, according to the study of coverage the electricity consumption and generation per capita for the years 2019 and 2020, it was calculated that generation could not coverage the consumption by 0.22% in 2019 and 0.27% in 2020.

Keywords

Covid-19, Electricity generation, Electricity consumption, Per capita electricity, Residential electricity

COVID-19 Karantinasının Elektrik Tüketimine ve Üretimine Etkisi: Türkiye örneği

Abstract

İlk olarak Çin'in Wuhan kentinde ortaya çıkan koronavirüsün (COVID-19) insan sağlığı üzerindeki olumsuz etkisini azaltmak için hükümetler tarafından uzaktan eğitim ve sokağa çıkma yasakları gibi önlemler alındı. Bu önlemler elektrik tüketimini etkiledi. Türkiye, COVID-19'dan olumsuz etkilenen ülkelerden biri oldu. Bu nedenle, bu makalenin amacı, Türkiye'de elektrik tüketiminin ve üretiminin COVID-19 salgınına bağlı olarak değişimini analiz etmektir. Bu amaçla, Türkiye'deki elektrik tüketimindeki değişimi incelemek için altı ilin konut, sanayi, iş yeri ve toplam elektrik tüketimi analiz edilmiştir. 2020 yılında ilk vakanın görüldüğü Mart ayı ile birlikte yılın on ayına bakıldığında 2019 yılına göre incelenen altı ilde konut elektrik tüketiminin arttığı gözlemlenmiştir. Sanayi elektriği tüketimi Mart ve sonraki aylarda azalmıştır, ancak sonraki aylarda artmıştır. Öte yandan, neredeyse on ayın tamamında işyeri elektrik tüketiminde azalma olduğu gözlenmiştir. Türkiye'de kişi başına elektrik üretimi tahmini çalışmasında, 2020 yılında üretilen elektriğin eğri uydurma yöntemiyle elde edilen tahmini değerden % 5,89 daha fazla olduğu hesaplanmıştır. Ayrıca 2019 ve 2020 yılları elektrik tüketimini ve kişi başına üretimi karşılama çalışmasına göre 2019 yılında % 0,22, 2020 yılında ise % 0,27 oranında üretimin tüketimi karşılayamadığı hesaplanmıştır.

Keywords

Covid-19, Elektrik üretimi, Elektrik tüketimi, Kişi başı elektrik, Konut elektriği

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