Pandemic causing 8%-9% power demand decrease nationwide: Platts Analytics

摘要

The novel coronavirus pandemic has cut power demand by 8% to 9% in various US markets, with some market regions – New York City, for example – having much more demand destruction, an S&P Global Platts Analytics analyst said Wednesday. “Weather-adjusted load growth was sluggish in 2019, even before we were seeing the coronavirus impacting demand,” said Manan Ahuja, Platts Analytics’ senior director of North American Power, during a webinar entitled, “Demand Destruction in Global Power: How the Dispatch Stack is Faring.”