Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Energy Use at the University of Almeria (Spain)

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作者
Chihib, Mehdi [1 ]
Salmeron-Manzano, Esther [2 ]
Chourak, Mimoun [3 ]
Perea-Moreno, Alberto-Jesus [4 ]
Manzano-Agugliaro, Francisco [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Almeria, CEIA3, Dept Engn, Almeria 04120, Spain
[2] Univ Int La Rioja UNIR, Fac Law, Av La Paz 137, Logrono 26006, Spain
[3] Mohammed First Univ, Mech & Appl Math Dept, Ind & Seism Engn Res Team, Natl Sch Appl Sci Oujda, Oujda 60000, Morocco
[4] Univ Cordoba, Dept Fis Aplicada Radiol & Med Fis, Campus Rabanales, Cordoba 14071, Spain
关键词
energy consumption; COVID-19; energy savings; energy performance; university buildings; sustainability; CONSUMPTION;
D O I
10.3390/su13115843
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
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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