LONDON - Life in lockdown means getting up late, staying up till midnight and slacking off in the afternoons.
1. People are sleeping later With no commute to the office people can sleep longer. Normally, electricity demand began to pick up between 6am and 8am. Now in Germany, it's clear coffee machines don't go on until between 8am and 9am, said Mr Simon Rathjen, founder of the trading company MFT Energy A/S.
It's"as though we are living through a month of Sundays", said Mr Iain Staffell, senior lecturer in sustainable energy at Imperial College London. In Singapore, electricity use has dropped off significantly since the country's"circuit-breaker" efforts to keep people at home began April 7. Electricity use has fallen and stayed low during the day. But late at night is a different story, as power demand fell sharply immediately after the lockdown began, but has steadily crept back in the past two weeks, perhaps a sign that"Tiger King" and"The Last Dance" have been finding late-night fans in the city state.
The closest we can get is looking at big events like football World Championships when people are all sitting down at the same time, according to Mr Rathjen at MTF.