Analysis of Factors that Interfere with the Regulatory Energy Process with Emphasis on the Energy Cloud

Abstract

The Energy Cloud (EC) is an emerging theme that has emerged as an option to the issues of managing energy supply and demand, since it makes use of tools that streamline this process, such as cloud computing, data processing, and smart devices. Efforts need to be focused on the regulation of this energy management model and understanding what affects or delays this process which is essential for the diffusion of EC. Thus, the objective of this paper is to present and discuss, through a systematic literature review, the factors that interfere in the energy regulatory process with emphasis on EC. This research resulted in 29 Critical Success Factors (CSF), which, according to similar characteristics, were grouped into 7 Fundamental Points of View (FPV): economic, personal or socio-cultural, availability, institutional and market, regulatory infrastructure, external and information factors, and ideology. The CSFs and FPVs were cited 183 times in the selected articles. The analysis of these factors contributed to the identification of barriers that affect the energy regulatory process, delaying the development towards an EC environment, and discussed the main regulatory challenges and opportunities in this area.

Diagnosis of the Energy Regulatory Scenario with Emphasis on Smart Energy

“…This system has different terminologies. Some authors conceptualize it as Energy Cloud (Giordano et al, 2019) (Stefan De Carvalho et al, 2022), others as Internet of Energy (Fang et al, 2020) (Zhang et al, 2022), also it can be called Energy Hub (Esapour et al, 2022) (Alnowibet et al, 2021), or Transactive Energy (Zamani et al, 2022). The most popular term that will be used in this article is Smart Energy (Morelli et al, 2022) (Tronchin et al, 2018).…”

Critical success factors for the implementation and management of energy cloud environments

“…Erol et al 34 studied the CSFs to improve the performance of a blockchain‐based solar energy ecosystem toward a circular economy in Turkey. De Carvalho et al 35 discussed the CSFs that interfere in the EC regulatory processes, concentrating and categorizing the factors according to the scope of the desired impacts. Therefore, it can be seen that bringing CSF into the context of EC can have great advantages.…”