Efects of Covid‑19 outbreak on environment and renewable energy sector

Abstract

Many articles have been written in the medical feld related to the Covid-19 outbreak that has surrounded the World and killed many people. However, its environmental and energy impacts have not been sufciently studied. Some sources argue that Covid-19 outbreak reduces pollution environmentally, while others say that environmentally signifcant damages await us. On the other hand, it is wondered how the global fexible renewable energy sector will react to Covid-19 outbreak. In this study, the efects of Covid-19 outbreak in terms of the environment and renewable energy sector in the literature were examined in detail and the fndings obtained were discussed. The main aim of this study is to shed light on the future studies of environmental and renewable energy researchers. Keywords Covid-19 outbreak · Environment · Renewable energy sector