Impacts of COVID-19 on Power Sector and the Role of ICT

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic becomes the reality of the world beyond the imagination. Our daily routine and lives are drifting in this timespan where the predictions of such situations were beyond the human brain limitations. Uncertainty and vagueness are the order of the day and it will stay till this pandemic ends. Our routine activities, like education, offices, businesses, health, etc. are completely interrupted. World health facilities are going to overburden on every passing minute for both developing and developed countries. In the current circumstances, the solution to the situation is to accept reality and find ways to live with it. Living with coronavirus pandemic will not be an easy task. We need to face the fact that without the support of two major stakeholders, living with it will be impossible. Power Sector and ICT are the modern tools that will become the core elements to overthrow this pandemic impacts. This paper provides an overview of the problem due to COVID-19 pandemic, associated impacts on Electricity, and ICT. It also highlights the importance of Electricity (Power Sector) and ICT in hospitals and daily lives to overcome the COVID-19. We conducted one survey from doctors to know the significance of ICT and continuous electric power supply in hospitals and the second survey from working professionals to know how ICT is supporting them to complete their daily tasks in a pandemic lockdown situation.