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      COVID-19: Impact Analysis and Recommendations for Power Sector Operation

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      Journal: Applied Energy
      Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
      Keywords: COVID-19, Power Systems, Load Demand, Global Power Systems, Indian Power Systems, Recommendations for Sustainable Power Systems, ACT, Actual, CEEW, Council of Energy Environment and Water, CERC, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, DISCOMs, Distribution Companies, DSM, Deviation Settlement Mechanism, ER, Eastern Region, ERLDC, Eastern Regional Load Dispatch Centre, FY, Financial Year, FVI, Frequency Variation Index, IEGC, Indian Electricity Grid Code, IEX, Indian Energy Exchange, IISD, Institute for Sustainable Development, IR, Indian Rupee, MCP, Market Clearing Price, NER, North Eastern Region, NERLDC, North Eastern Regional Load Dispatch Centre, NHPC, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation, NLDC, National Load Dispatch Centre, NR, Northern Region, NRLDC, Northern Regional Load Dispatch Centre, NTPC, National Thermal Power Corporation, PGCIL, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd, POSOCO, Power System Operation Corporation, PXI, Power Energy Exchange, RES, Renewable Energy sources, RLDC, Regional Load Dispatch Centre, SCH, Schedule, SLDC, State Load Dispatch Centre, SR, Southern Region, SRLDC, Southern Regional Load Dispatch Centre, STATCOM, Static Var Compensator, UFLS, Under Frequency based Load Shedding, WR, Western Region, WRLDC, Western Regional Load Dispatch Centre, VAR, Volt Ampere Reactive, VDI, Voltage Deviation Index

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            Investigation on direct and indirect impacts due to COVID-19 pandemic which have a pronounced effect on the development of power sector.

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            An in-depth analysis on Indian power system scenario during pandemic is presented.

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            Demonstration of utility measures and initiatives to combat unforeseen reduction and shifting of electricity demand.

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            Pragmatic solutions and recommendations are provided for risk management in power and energy sector.

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          The demand of electricity has been reduced significantly due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Governments around the world were compelled to reduce the business activity in response to minimize the threat of coronavirus. This on-going situation due to COVID-19 has changed the lifestyle globally as people are mostly staying home and working from home if possible. Hence, there is a significant increase in residential load demand while there is a substantial decrease in commercial and industrial loads. This devastating situation creates new challenges in the technical and financial activities of the power sector and hence most of the utilities around the world initiated a disaster management plan to tackle this ongoing challenges/threats. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the global scenarios of power systems during COVID-19 along with the socio-economic and technical issues faced by the utilities. Then this study further scrutinized the Indian power system as a case study and explored scenarios, issues and challenges currently being faced to manage the consumer load demand, including the actions taken by the utilities/power sector for the smooth operation of the power system. Finally, a set of recommendations are presented that will not only help government/policymakers/utilities around the world to overcome the current crisis but also helps to overcome future unforeseeable pandemic alike scenarios.

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          Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science

          Emily A. Holmes, Rory C O'Connor, V. Perry … (2020)
          Summary The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is having a profound effect on all aspects of society, including mental health and physical health. We explore the psychological, social, and neuroscientific effects of COVID-19 and set out the immediate priorities and longer-term strategies for mental health science research. These priorities were informed by surveys of the public and an expert panel convened by the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and the mental health research charity, MQ: Transforming Mental Health, in the first weeks of the pandemic in the UK in March, 2020. We urge UK research funding agencies to work with researchers, people with lived experience, and others to establish a high level coordination group to ensure that these research priorities are addressed, and to allow new ones to be identified over time. The need to maintain high-quality research standards is imperative. International collaboration and a global perspective will be beneficial. An immediate priority is collecting high-quality data on the mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic across the whole population and vulnerable groups, and on brain function, cognition, and mental health of patients with COVID-19. There is an urgent need for research to address how mental health consequences for vulnerable groups can be mitigated under pandemic conditions, and on the impact of repeated media consumption and health messaging around COVID-19. Discovery, evaluation, and refinement of mechanistically driven interventions to address the psychological, social, and neuroscientific aspects of the pandemic are required. Rising to this challenge will require integration across disciplines and sectors, and should be done together with people with lived experience. New funding will be required to meet these priorities, and it can be efficiently leveraged by the UK's world-leading infrastructure. This Position Paper provides a strategy that may be both adapted for, and integrated with, research efforts in other countries.
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            The psychological impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on college students in China

            Wenjun Cao, Ziwei Fang, Guoqiang Hou … (2020)
            Highlights • Methods of guiding students to effectively and appropriately regulate their emotions during public health emergencies and avoid losses caused by crisis events have become an urgent problem for colleges and universities. Therefore, we investigated and analyzed the mental health status of college students during the epidemic for the following purposes. (1) To evaluate the mental situation of college students during the epidemic; (2) to provide a theoretical basis for psychological interventions with college students; and (3) to provide a basis for the promulgation of national and governmental policies.
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              COVID-19 and mental health: A review of the existing literature

              Ravi Philip Rajkumar (2020)
              Highlights • Subsyndromal mental health concerns are a common response to the COVID-19 outbreak. • These responses affect both the general public and healthcare workers. • Depressive and anxiety symptoms have been reported in 16–28% of subjects screened. • Novel methods of consultation, such as online services, can be helpful for these patients. • There is a need for further long-term research in this area, especially from other countries
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                Contributors
                Rajvikram Madurai Elavarasan
                G.M. Shafiullah
                R. Kannadasan
                Vijay Mudgal
                M.T. Arif
                S. Senthilkumar
                V.S. SriRajaBalaguru
                K.S. Reddy
                Umashankar Subramaniam
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Appl Energy
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Appl Energy
                Title: Applied Energy
                Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
                ISSN (Print): 0306-2619
                ISSN (Electronic): 0306-2619
                Publication date PMC-release: 31 August 2020
                Publication date (Electronic): 31 August 2020
                Electronic Location Identifier: 115739
                Affiliations
                [a ]Electrical and Automotive parts Manufacturing unit, AA Industries, Chennai 600123, Tamilnadu, India
                [b ]Discipline of Engineering and Energy, Murdoch University, Perth, WA 6150, Australia
                [c ]Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Chennai- 602117, India
                [d ]Heat Transfer and Thermal Power Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai – 600036, India
                [e ]School of Engineering, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Geelong, VIC 3216, Australia
                [f ]Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
                [g ]State Load Dispatch Centre, Grid operations, TANTRANSCO, Chennai-600002, India
                [h ]Non Conventional Energy Sources, TANGEDCO, Chennai-600002, India
                [i ]Renewable Energy Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, Prince Sultan University, 11586 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
                Author notes
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                Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Anna University, Chennai-600025, India

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                Publisher ID: S0306-2619(20)31229-0 Publisher ID: 115739
                DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115739
                PMC ID: 7458120
                PubMed ID: 32904736
                SO-VID: d8634f83-87fe-4cbb-8f6c-59d46b128ac4
                Copyright © © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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                Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

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                Date received : 8 May 2020
                Date revision received : 1 August 2020
                Date accepted : 18 August 2020
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                Keywords: covid-19,power systems,load demand,global power systems,indian power systems,recommendations for sustainable power systems,act, actual,ceew, council of energy environment and water,cerc, central electricity regulatory commission,discoms, distribution companies,dsm, deviation settlement mechanism,er, eastern region,erldc, eastern regional load dispatch centre,fy, financial year,fvi, frequency variation index,iegc, indian electricity grid code,iex, indian energy exchange,iisd, institute for sustainable development,ir, indian rupee,mcp, market clearing price,ner, north eastern region,nerldc, north eastern regional load dispatch centre,nhpc, national hydroelectric power corporation,nldc, national load dispatch centre,nr, northern region,nrldc, northern regional load dispatch centre,ntpc, national thermal power corporation,pgcil, power grid corporation of india ltd,posoco, power system operation corporation,pxi, power energy exchange,res, renewable energy sources,rldc, regional load dispatch centre,sch, schedule,sldc, state load dispatch centre,sr, southern region,srldc, southern regional load dispatch centre,statcom, static var compensator,ufls, under frequency based load shedding,wr, western region,wrldc, western regional load dispatch centre,var, volt ampere reactive,vdi, voltage deviation index
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                Keywords: covid-19, power systems, load demand, global power systems, indian power systems, recommendations for sustainable power systems, act, actual, ceew, council of energy environment and water, cerc, central electricity regulatory commission, discoms, distribution companies, dsm, deviation settlement mechanism, er, eastern region, erldc, eastern regional load dispatch centre, fy, financial year, fvi, frequency variation index, iegc, indian electricity grid code, iex, indian energy exchange, iisd, institute for sustainable development, ir, indian rupee, mcp, market clearing price, ner, north eastern region, nerldc, north eastern regional load dispatch centre, nhpc, national hydroelectric power corporation, nldc, national load dispatch centre, nr, northern region, nrldc, northern regional load dispatch centre, ntpc, national thermal power corporation, pgcil, power grid corporation of india ltd, posoco, power system operation corporation, pxi, power energy exchange, res, renewable energy sources, rldc, regional load dispatch centre, sch, schedule, sldc, state load dispatch centre, sr, southern region, srldc, southern regional load dispatch centre, statcom, static var compensator, ufls, under frequency based load shedding, wr, western region, wrldc, western regional load dispatch centre, var, volt ampere reactive, vdi, voltage deviation index

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