id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-351672-7oi9w87s Klemeš, Jiří Jaromír COVID‐19 pandemic facilitating energy transition opportunities 2020-09-30 .txt text/plain 2671 182 52 As the COVID-19 pandemic stimulated new markets in distance meeting/learning, home office, e-shopping and e-socialising, the promising development trend of 5G is highly expected after the pandemic is well controlled. Many innovative and intensified services as e-shopping, advanced and possible person-less waste management collection and treatment, and applications of novel ways for deliveries, for example, drones, can change the energy requirements. 20 It means that with many options opened the new emerging options and opportunities for energy saving and making the generation, distribution and usage more efficient becomes a crucial issue and the research in this direction should be encouraged and facilitated. The future research should follow several avenues: novel opportunities continuously arising as a response to the new demands, energy efficiency and savings as well as reducing and minimising the environmental burden created by electrical power generation, transmission and distribution. Minimising the present and future plastic waste, energy and environmental footprints related to COVID-19 ./cache/cord-351672-7oi9w87s.txt ./txt/cord-351672-7oi9w87s.txt