Effect of Covid 19 over Indian Domestic Power Sector: A Comprehensive Study

ABSTRACT

The year 2020 will be remembered a battle for existence of mankind against a super spreading virus Covid-19. While health-workers fought from the front, power industry stood like backbone to ensure proper support to handle the crisis. The covid-19 brought lots of changes in people's sociocultural, economic, day to day life. The fear of the pandemic along with its counter measure pushed many people to work from home. On the other hand, health care industry faced an unprecedented demand of oxygen, medicine, transportation, PPE, life support system etc. In this paper it has been shown that how the pandemic affected the different regions of Indian power industry by changing energy and power demand, load pattern, generation resource sharing and creating transients. Also, it describes how Indian Power Industry stood tall by successfully handling all these unprecedented situations. © 2021 IEEE.