Global Changes in Energy Consumption During COVID-19

Francisco Rowe [@fcorowe]¹, Caitlin Robinson [@CaitHRobin]¹, Nikos Patias [@pat_nikos]¹

¹ Geographic Data Science Lab, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

This repository stores the required code and data to replicate the results of the following article:

Rowe, F., Robinson, C., Patias, N. 2021. Sensing Global Changes in the Local Patterns of Energy Consumption in Cities During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

This paper analyses changes in urban energy consumption during the early stages of the pandemic for a sample of major global cities. Particularly the paper seeks to:

• measure city-scale changes in energy consumption in response to COVID-19;
• determine the extent of shifts in spatial patterns of intra-urban energy consumption;
• investigate potential explanations for changes in urban energy consumption.

Citation

If you use the code and/or data in this repository, we would appreciate if you could cite the pre-print paper as:

@article{rowe_et_al2022ne,
  title={Sensing Global Changes in Local Patterns of Energy Consumption in Cities During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic},
  author={Rowe, Francisco and 
          Robinson, Caitlin and 
          Patias, Nikos},
  journal={Cities},
  DOI={https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103808}
  year={2022},
}

The repository is also registered on the Open Science Framework