Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic throughout 2020, made many community activities carried out at home. Thus, people are believed to use a lot of electrical energy for activities at home. The government has implemented various efforts in order to save energy by the community. . However, the visible phenomenon is that the use of electrical energy in households is still high. This study aims to determine the behavior of prepaid electricity consumption during the Covid-19 pandemic, which is carried out descriptively quantitatively, with a sample of 100 people through the snowball sampling technique. Collecting data through questionnaires and then tested using the Cochran Q-Test method. The results show that the behavior displayed by prepaid electricity consumers in consuming electricity during the Covid-19 pandemic is summarized as follows (1) Electricity is used to carry out activities at home, starting from gardening, in the kitchen, getting entertainment, studying, and working, 2) Electricity is used to support business opening shops during the Covid-19 pandemic, (3) The use of large electricity due to the large number of family members (4) The habit of forgetting to turn off electricity when leaving the house (5) Use of electricity to turn on the air conditioner all day longKeywords: consumer behavior, prepaid electricity, household sector, and the covid-19 pandemicJEL Classification: C42, D10, M00, O30DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.11403
Highlights
Population growth in the city of Makassar is currently increasing greatly, this is accompanied by economic growth
Small and medium enterprises are growing, and are very dependent on electricity supply. This condition causes the demand for electricity to be higher, on the other hand, the community needs it for daily household needs. It requires a supply of electricity from the government, considering that the government is the only provider of electricity in the city of Makassar, Indonesia
According to Semuel, (2014), electricity users who are identified as the highest using electrical energy come from the industrial sector, but that does not mean that households use only a little of electrical energy
Summary
Population growth in the city of Makassar is currently increasing greatly, this is accompanied by economic growth. Small and medium enterprises are growing, and are very dependent on electricity supply. This condition causes the demand for electricity to be higher, on the other hand, the community needs it for daily household needs. It requires a supply of electricity from the government, considering that the government is the only provider of electricity in the city of Makassar, Indonesia. The development of information technology has an impact on the increasing needs of the community, both for household users, small and medium industries, especially large companies.
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