TY - JOUR
TI - Electricity consumption and market prices in Serbia impact of the pandemic of COVID-19
AU - Ćorović Nebojša M
AU - Gvozdenac Urošević Branka D
AU - Katić Nenad A
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2022
VL - 26
IS - 5
SP - 4067
EP - 4078
PT - Article
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic has begun in early 2020 and still continues to strongly  affect the entire world delivering a significant global, shock, but varying  across countries and commodity sectors. The Government of the Republic of  Serbia has been adopting different measures to slow down the dissemination  of the corona-virus, specifically nationwide lockdown in March and April  2020. Business activities have been reduced. The pandemic situation has  changed the lifestyle as people are mostly staying home and working from  home. This paper provides a re-view of unprecedented impacts of COVID-19  pandemic, with restrictions and lockdown in Serbia, on electricity sector at  this stage of the crisis. The outcomes offer a contribution to the body of  literature because limited research has been conducted on these  relationships in case of Serbia. Sets of statistical indicators are used to  analyze changes the electricity sector has been facing. Data visualization  is used to compare developments during the pandemic with those of previous  years. Our research and data-driven analysis of these impacts should  improve the understanding of the techno-economic effects of unforeseen  events, such as a pandemic, on the power system, scrutinizing if effects  could be relative-ly short‐lived or longer‐lasting.