Impact of Lockdowns and Winter Temperatures on Natural Gas Consumption in Europe
Ciais, Philippe (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement)
Bréon, François-Marie (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement)
Dellaert, Stijn (TNO Air and Sustainability. Department of Climate)
Wang, Yilong (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Tanaka, Katsumasa (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement)
Gurriaran, Léna (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement)
Françoise, Yann (Agence d'écologie Urbaine. Division Climat-énergies économie Circulaire)
Davis, Steven J. (University of California. Department of Earth System Science)
Hong, Chaopeng (Tsinghua University)
Peñuelas, Josep (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Janssens, Ivan (University of Antwerp. Department of Biology)
Obersteiner, Michael (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Àustria))
Deng, Zhu (Tsinghua University. Department of Earth System Science)
Liu, Zhu (Tsinghua University. Department of Earth System Science)

Data:	2021
Resum:	As the COVID-19 virus spread over the world, governments restricted mobility to slow transmission. Public health measures had different intensities across European countries but all had significant impact on people's daily lives and economic activities, causing a drop of CO2 emissions of about 10% for the whole year 2020. Here, we analyze changes in natural gas use in the industry and gas distribution to the built environment during the first half of year 2020 with daily gas flows data from pipeline and storage facilities in Europe. We find that reductions of industrial gas use reflect decreases in industrial production across most countries. Surprisingly, natural gas use in the built environment also decreased despite most people being confined at home and cold spells in March 2020. Those reductions that we attribute to the impacts of COVID-19 remain of comparable magnitude to previous variations induced by cold or warm climate anomalies in the cold season. We conclude that climate variations played a larger role than COVID-19 induced stay-home orders in natural gas consumption across Europe.
Ajuts:	Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2020/PANDE-00117
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Publicat a:	Earth's future, Vol. 10, Issue 1 (January 2021) , art. e2021EF002250, ISSN 2328-4277

DOI: 10.1029/2021EF002250

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