Covid-19: Secrets of lockdown lifestyle laid bare in electricity data


A woman works at a laptop computer at the kitchen in Bern, Switzerland. The evening is when electricity use is highest, with most people confined to their homes. Internet traffic is also skyrocketing, with a surge in bandwidth-intensive applications like streaming services and Zoom. — Bloomberg

Life in lockdown means getting up late, staying up till midnight and slacking off in the afternoons.

That’s what power market data show in Europe in the places where restrictions on activity have led to a widespread shift in daily routines of hundreds of millions of people.

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