Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Energy Use at the University of Almeria (Spain)
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused chaos in many sectors and industries. In the energy sector, the demand has fallen drastically during the first quarter of 2020. The University of Almeria campus also declined the energy consumption in 2020, and through this study, we aimed to measure the impact of cl...
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| author | Chihib, Mehdi Salmerón Manzano, Esther María Perea Moreno, Alberto Manzano Agugliaro, Francisco |
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| description | The COVID-19 pandemic has caused chaos in many sectors and industries. In the energy sector, the demand has fallen drastically during the first quarter of 2020. The University of Almeria campus also declined the energy consumption in 2020, and through this study, we aimed to measure the impact of closing the campus on the energy use of its different facilities. We built our analysis based upon the dataset collected during the year 2020 and previous years; the patterns evolution through time allowed us to better understand the energy performance of each facility during this exceptional year. We rearranged the university buildings into categories, and all the categories reduced their electricity consumption share in comparison with the previous year of 2019. Furthermore, the portfolio of categories presented a wide range of ratios that varied from 56% to 98%, the library category was found to be the most influenced, and the research category was found to be the least influenced. This opened questions like why some facilities were influenced more than others? What can we do to reduce the energy use even more when the facilities are closed? The university buildings presented diverse structures that revealed differences in energy performance, which explained why the impact of such an event (COVID-19 pandemic) is not necessarily relevant to have equivalent variations. Nevertheless, some management deficiencies were detected, and some energy savings measures were proposed to achieve a minimum waste of energy. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-119832023-04-12T19:31:19Z Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Energy Use at the University of Almeria (Spain) Chihib, Mehdi Salmerón Manzano, Esther María Perea Moreno, Alberto Manzano Agugliaro, Francisco energy consumption COVID-19 energy savings energy performance university buildings sustainability The COVID-19 pandemic has caused chaos in many sectors and industries. In the energy sector, the demand has fallen drastically during the first quarter of 2020. The University of Almeria campus also declined the energy consumption in 2020, and through this study, we aimed to measure the impact of closing the campus on the energy use of its different facilities. We built our analysis based upon the dataset collected during the year 2020 and previous years; the patterns evolution through time allowed us to better understand the energy performance of each facility during this exceptional year. We rearranged the university buildings into categories, and all the categories reduced their electricity consumption share in comparison with the previous year of 2019. Furthermore, the portfolio of categories presented a wide range of ratios that varied from 56% to 98%, the library category was found to be the most influenced, and the research category was found to be the least influenced. This opened questions like why some facilities were influenced more than others? What can we do to reduce the energy use even more when the facilities are closed? The university buildings presented diverse structures that revealed differences in energy performance, which explained why the impact of such an event (COVID-19 pandemic) is not necessarily relevant to have equivalent variations. Nevertheless, some management deficiencies were detected, and some energy savings measures were proposed to achieve a minimum waste of energy. 2021-07-21T07:53:55Z 2021-07-21T07:53:55Z 2021-05-22 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2071-1050 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/11983 https://doi.org/10.3390/su13115843 en https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/11/5843 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | energy consumption COVID-19 energy savings energy performance university buildings sustainability Chihib, Mehdi Salmerón Manzano, Esther María Perea Moreno, Alberto Manzano Agugliaro, Francisco Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Energy Use at the University of Almeria (Spain) |
| title | Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Energy Use at the University of Almeria (Spain) |
| title_full | Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Energy Use at the University of Almeria (Spain) |
| title_fullStr | Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Energy Use at the University of Almeria (Spain) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Energy Use at the University of Almeria (Spain) |
| title_short | Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Energy Use at the University of Almeria (Spain) |
| title_sort | impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the energy use at the university of almeria (spain) |
| topic | energy consumption COVID-19 energy savings energy performance university buildings sustainability |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/11983 https://doi.org/10.3390/su13115843 |
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