A survey of of blockchain-based solutions for Energy Industry
It offers a structured overview for researchers in the energy sector, but it is incremental as it synthesizes existing work without new results.
This paper surveys blockchain-based solutions for the energy industry, categorizing existing research into clusters like challenges addressed, quality attributes, and maturity levels to provide insights from multiple perspectives.
The energy industry needs to shift to a new paradigm from its classical model of energy generation, distribution, and management. This shift is necessary to handle digitization, increased renewable energy generation, and to achieve goals of environmental sustainability. This shift has several challenges on its way and has been seen through research and development that blockchain which is one of the budding technology in this era could be suitable for addressing those challenges. This paper is aimed at the survey of all the research and development related to blockchain in the energy industry and uses a software engineering approach to categories all the existing work in several clusters such as challenges addressed, quality attribute promoted, the maturity level of the solutions, etc. This survey provides researchers in this field a well-defined categorization and insight into the existing work in this field from 3 different perspectives (challenges, quality attributes, maturity).