June 19, 2020 by Daniel Crow and Ariane Millot

The global lockdown has resulted in a jump in home working and a collapse in commuting. If, post-lockdown, this new lifestyle is widely embraced, will it mean a reduction in total energy consumption and, if so, by how much? Daniel Crow and Ariane Millot at the IEA have crunched the numbers to attempt to answer this question. The first observation is that although car use will drop, residential energy consumption will rise. This is what makes the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: Africa, China, commuting, demand, emissions, Europe, homeworking, transport, US