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Impact of lockdowns and winter temperatures on natural gas consumption in Europe
- Source :
- Earth's Future, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp n/a-n/a (2022), Earth's Future, Earth's Future, 2022, 10 (1), ⟨10.1029/2021ef002250⟩, Earth's future
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- arXiv, 2021.
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Abstract
- International audience; Natural gas use accounts for ≈38% of the fossil fuel CO 2 emissions in Europe, including the EU27 and UK (Eurostat, 2021). The share of this fossil fuel in the energy mix has been growing since 1990 at the expense of oil and coal, as it is viewed as a cleaner source of energy (IEA, 2021). The main sectors using natural gas are the built environment (residential, public and commercial buildings), the industry, and the electricity production (Eurostat, 2021). In addition to steadily growing natural gas use, the COVID-19 pandemic profoundly disrupted economic activities and the energy demand, beginning in early March of 2020. Specifically, the government policies restricted mobility and confined people at home during "lockdowns", and reduced or closed industrial and non-essential commercial activities, with impacts on gas use and pertaining CO 2 emissions. Although such impacts have been noted by recent reports (IEA, 2020a, 2020b), they have not yet been quantified and analyzed in detail. During the cold season period when the pandemic arrived in Europe, natural gas consumption is typically high due to the heating demand in the built environment, which represents 52% of the total gas consumption from all-sectors averaged over January to June. For both residential and commercial buildings, gas consumption is typically inversely proportional to daily air temperature when temperatures fall below a comfort threshold "critical
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Natural resource economics
and environment
FOS: Physical sciences
law.invention
law
Natural gas consumption
medicine
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
GE1-350
Philippe Ciais
[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment
Biology
QH540-549.5
General Environmental Science
[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere
Ecology
Public health
Physics
Environmental sciences
Chemistry
Physics - Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Transmission (mechanics)
Geography
society
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
François-Marie Bréon Investigation: Philippe Ciais Methodology: Philippe Ciais The COVID-19 pandemic: linking health
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23284277
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Earth's Future, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp n/a-n/a (2022), Earth's Future, Earth's Future, 2022, 10 (1), ⟨10.1029/2021ef002250⟩, Earth's future
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c3a9aeb7938f11b05f2593ee7f502e31
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2104.14990