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.
It’s a similar story wherever lockdowns bite. In New York, electricity use has fallen as much as 18 percent from normal times at 8 a.m. Tokyo and three nearby prefectures had a 5 percent drop in power use during weekdays after Japan declared a state of emergency on April 7, according to Tesla Asia Pacific, an energy forecaster.
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