TY - GEN
T1 - Assessing Energy Generation and Consumption Patterns in Times of Crisis
T2 - 2021 IEEE Madrid PowerTech, PowerTech 2021
AU - Ofir, Ron
AU - Zargari, Noa
AU - Navon, Aviad
AU - Levron, Yoash
AU - Belikov, Juri
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/6/28
Y1 - 2021/6/28
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic and the preventive measures that followed it have significantly impacted generation and consumption patterns in power systems across the globe, calling for new tools to efficiently evaluate generation and load profiles. In this work, we propose one possible tool, which we name the smoothness index, that evaluates a profile based on both its load factor and ramp rate. The proposed index is a modification of the coefficient of variation, also known as the relative standard deviation, and is computed by transforming the profile under study to the frequency domain, and calculating the weighted norm of the signal, where higher frequencies are associated with larger weights. We demonstrate our method by studying the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and government policies on load and generation profiles in several European countries.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic and the preventive measures that followed it have significantly impacted generation and consumption patterns in power systems across the globe, calling for new tools to efficiently evaluate generation and load profiles. In this work, we propose one possible tool, which we name the smoothness index, that evaluates a profile based on both its load factor and ramp rate. The proposed index is a modification of the coefficient of variation, also known as the relative standard deviation, and is computed by transforming the profile under study to the frequency domain, and calculating the weighted norm of the signal, where higher frequencies are associated with larger weights. We demonstrate our method by studying the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and government policies on load and generation profiles in several European countries.
KW - COVID-19
KW - SARS-CoV-2
KW - coronavirus
KW - energy assessment
KW - power systems
KW - renewable energy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112348086&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/PowerTech46648.2021.9494753
DO - 10.1109/PowerTech46648.2021.9494753
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AN - SCOPUS:85112348086
T3 - 2021 IEEE Madrid PowerTech, PowerTech 2021 - Conference Proceedings
BT - 2021 IEEE Madrid PowerTech, PowerTech 2021 - Conference Proceedings
Y2 - 28 June 2021 through 2 July 2021
ER -
