The decline in business activity and local restrictions imposed by the authorities of various countries to combat the coronavirus have hit many sectors of the economy, including the energy sector.
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According to the International Energy Agency, as of June 2020, energy consumption in the world lagged behind last year’s indicators by 10%, only in August it began to gradually level out. The power system in Russia went through the peak months of the crisis relatively calmly: in April, consumers, taking into account isolated energy regions of the country, chose 84.3 billion kWh of energy (minus 2.8% by April 2019), in May – 77.6 billion kWh (minus 5.3%), in June – 74.1 billion kWh (minus 5.9%). By September, the rate of decline in consumption became minimal.
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However, since October, the incidence of COVID-19 began to grow in the country again, and now it is obvious that Russia, like the rest of the world, is experiencing a second wave of the pandemic. And it may turn out to be even tougher than the first one. The head of the energy business of En + Group, the general director of “Vedomosti” told about how the power engineers passed the first peak of the coronacrisis, whether they are ready for the second wave and what weaknesses were found in the work of generation and regulation of the industry.Eurosibenergo“Mikhail Khardikov.
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– Today, a sharp increase in the incidence of coronavirus is again recorded in the country. Is the company seeing the second peak of the pandemic?
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