Janzen, Benedikt; Radulescu, Doina - 2020
We employ hourly electricity load data for Switzerland as a real time indicator of the economic effects of the lockdown … following the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Our findings reveal that following the drastic lockdown, overall electricity use decreased by … electricity consumption of 6.3 per cent. Assuming industry, services, transport and agriculture account for 67 per cent of …