COVID-19 Impact Assessment of Energy Consumption on Kerala State Electricity Board Power Utility Grid

ABSTRACT

Electricity demand have dropped sharply in general as governments around the world executed the lockdown restrictions. The load compositions and the daily load profiles have also changed. Utilities are basically engaged in providing various power requirements accordingly for different types of tariffs. The various tariffs are applicable to consumers like Domestic, Industry, Agriculture, Government sources, Commercial, Public lighting etc. The COVID-19 Pandemic have affected the energy consumption of various tariff categories in different ways. Since the COVID-19 Pandemic deprived most of the Industrial and Commercial establishments of their functioning, their energy consumption drastically came down whereas the domestic energy consumption increased. This paper attempts to compare assess the energy consumption data of various categories during the pandemic period and how it has affected the Utilities sale of KSEB Power Utility Grid. © 2021 IEEE.