As consequências da pandemia de COVID-19 sobre a demanda e a oferta de energia elétrica no Brasil em 2020

Abstract

The outbreak caused by the SARS-Cov-2 virus in December 2019 in the city of Wuhan in China, and which in March 2020 was declared by the World Health Organization as a Covid-19 pandemic, imposed on countries including Brazil, the adoption of social isolation measures in an attempt to combat the spread of the virus in their territories. These measures directly interfered in the global economy, due to the total or partial shutdown of activities. The global health crisis has caused changes in the consumption of electricity. Uncertainty dominated expectations about the direction of the Brazilian economy, regarding the severity and duration of the pandemic crisis. This research aims to analyze what were the consequences generated by the Covid-19 pandemic on the consumption and supply of electricity in the year 2020, since economic activity stopped and people were forced to adopt remote work or not even this one, because in some situations layoffs and bankruptcies of some companies occurred. The methodology adopted in the present research will be the descriptive analysis with bibliographic review to characterize the market structure that the electric sector is part of, and the documentary research to describe the facts, through the collection of secondary data that provided subsidies for the research.