ABSTRACT
The outbreak of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the late 2019 and its eventual transformation into a global pandemic has caused a shock wave across the countries. The renewable energy (RE) sector, which has always been one of the leading areas for promoting the environmental sustainability, has not been spared from the epidemic. The integration of the effects of the epidemic on the global economy and the fluctuation of oil prices due to the global quarantines around the world has increased the impact of this disease on the RE industry. Although the COVID-19 crisis has had a negative effect on the efforts to develop RE, the analysts believe that in the future, more of the world's energy requirements will come from the RE sources. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has claimed that the RE consumption is likely to increase since the people tend to have clean and sustainable energy sources such as wind, water, and solar energy more than before. In the present work, the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on the environmental changes, energy consumption, the need to use RE, the investments made in the field of RE, and the well-being of the people of the world are examined, and the details and the results obtained will be discussed. The main aim of the this work is to review the studies of the researchers on the impact of the COVID-19 disease on the environment and RE.