scholarly journals Using cognitive computing for a secure cloud in the energy sector

2019 ◽  
Vol XXII (1) ◽  
pp. 52-58
Author(s):  
Eftimie S.
Keyword(s):  
Energy Sector ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
Cognitive Computing ◽  
Cloud Adoption ◽  
Malicious Insiders ◽  
Cloud Technologies

The evolving changes in the energy industry have led to increased efforts in adopting cloud technologies. In this paper, we explore specific security needs of the energy sector and propose a solution that uses the latest advances in cognitive computing to detect malicious insiders, one of the top threats that prevent cloud adoption.

scholarly journals An Influence of Group Purchasing Organizations on Financial Security of SMEs Operating in the Renewable Energy Sector—Case for Poland

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 2926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Zimon ◽  
Marek Sobolewski ◽  
Grzegorz Lew
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Operating Cycle ◽  
Cash Conversion Cycle ◽  
Energy Companies ◽  
Renewable Energy Industry

European countries are increasingly using renewable energy. Poland is an outsider of such solutions. The Polish energy sector is primarily based on energy produced from coal. However, environmental changes and regulations of the European Union are forcing the increased use of energy from renewable sources. Renewable energy is an industry that is still developing in Poland. At the same time, Poland is a country where the political decisions of the government over the last few years have resulted in a significant limitation of the possibilities of renewable energy development. These actions have also resulted in lowering the profitability of the currently operating renewable energy enterprises, especially those from the sector of small and medium-sized enterprises. An opportunity for SMEs operating in the renewable energy sector is to merge into industry purchasing groups. The aim of the article—and at the same time the research question—is: Is it financially safer for renewable energy companies to operate within purchasing groups compared to companies operating independently in this industry? Traditional ways of purchasing can be transferred to integrated purchasing systems, which will be created by purchasing groups associating renewable energy companies. For this purpose, the financial effects of the implementation and functioning of the purchasing groups in the renewable energy sector in relation to entities operating independently were examined. In the research of renewable energy SMEs, a comparative analysis of key indicators determining the possibility of continuing the activity of these entities was made. The following indicators were examined: current financial liquidity ratio, return on sales, operating cycle, cash conversion cycle, share of receivables in current assets, share of inventory in current assets, turnover ratios, level of receivables, liabilities and profitability. The scientific literature is dominated by studies on purchasing groups in the pharmaceutical and construction industries. Thanks to the research conducted, it has been indicated that the renewable energy industry can also improve its profitability, and thus the possibility of safe continuation of operations by extending the business model to inter-entity cooperation within purchasing groups. Increasing the efficiency of individual entities of the renewable energy industry within purchasing groups becomes particularly important during the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistical analyses and their graphic presentation present the significant impact on the safety and profitability of renewable energy entities in the form of purchasing groups.

Mobile and Cloud Technologies for Smarter Governance

2015 ◽  
pp. 2323-2353
Author(s):  
Pethuru Raj
Keyword(s):  
Smart Phones ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Minimum Requirement ◽  
Cloud Adoption ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Quality Technology ◽  
Composite Services ◽  
Self Service ◽  
Cloud Technologies ◽  
Software Services

There are hordes of data-driven, context-aware, and people-centric applications and services for smarter environments such as smarter homes, governments, buildings, cities, and organizations. With the exponential growth of smart phones, there are service repositories and application stores in remote mobile clouds. Similarly, with the ceaseless advancements in the device ecosystem and in the IT field, government-specific applications will flourish and be deployed and maintained in special cloud stores, platforms, and infrastructures to be found, bound, and used by any input/output devices for a variety of everyday personal and professional purposes. Smart, sustainable, intuitive, and citizen-aware services can be dynamically created from the ground up as well as orchestrated or choreographed out of multiple atomic and discrete software services. Such composite services are directly fulfilling government activities. Thus, clouds emerge as the most common and minimum requirement for not only producing and stocking services but also for hosting application platforms. Further, clouds facilitate provisioning and renting out their configurable and customizable assets on demand. Through self-service portals, the cloud usage is to pick up fast in the days to unfold. In this chapter, the authors write about how cloud adoption is to ring in delectable transformations for worldwide governments as well as their citizens, that is, how governments can accomplish more with less, how people can experience high quality, technology-sponsored digital living, how the cloud idea becomes a centre of attraction for more ingenuity towards newer and nimbler service conceptualization, concretization, and delivery.

scholarly journals Human Capital in Russian Power Generating Corporations

2020 ◽  
Vol 157 ◽  
pp. 04028
Author(s):  
Dmitri Pletnev ◽  
Maxim Kazadayev ◽  
Victor Barkhatov
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Electricity Generation ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
Staff Turnover ◽  
New Approaches

The Russian energy industry is on the verge of major changes. The potential of existing technologies has been exhausted, and to ensure economic growth, the development and implementation of new approaches in the field of electricity generation is necessary. The human capital of enterprises is the most important driver of changes in the energy sector. The purpose of the article is to analyze the influence of factors characterizing human capital on the effectiveness of Russian power generating corporations. The study found that the efficiency of power generating corporations is most strongly influenced by the share of managers in the structure of employment and labor productivity. Such indicators as the share of specialists with higher education and staff turnover did not significantly affect the efficiency of power generating corporations.

scholarly journals Start-ups as an Element Supporting the Development of the Mining and Energy Sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 04015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryszard Pukala
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
Developmental Status ◽  
Financial Liquidity ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Modern Technologies ◽  
Market Success

This study aims at presenting opportunities offered to the mining and energy industry by the emergence and operation of high-risk enterprises – start-ups. Moreover, it analyses interrelations between the developmental status of such entities and their lifespan. We need to stress that start-ups are mostly associated with modern technologies that are used and implemented in various sectors of the economy. Therefore, they are classified as innovative and innovation-implementing enterprises, which gives them a chance to gain market success and competitive advantage. As shown by conducted analyses, start-ups can be an efficient element that supports the development of mining and energy enterprises. At the same time, again on the basis of analyses, start-ups, quickly developing and maturing as well as seeking their own business model, exhibit the largest risk of losing financial liquidity.

scholarly journals Summary Report of the Workshop on the Interactions of Climate and Energy

1985 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. Knox ◽  
H. Moses ◽  
M. C. MacCracken
Keyword(s):  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Electric Utility ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Department Of Energy ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Climate Information ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Climate Analysis

The joint Industry/DOE Workshop on the Interactions of Climate and Energy was designed to bring the providers of climate information and services together with users and representatives of the oil, gas, coal, and electric utility sectors of the U.S. energy industry. Primary discussion topics included current uses of climate data, the perceived impacts of climatic anomalies on the energy sector, ways to improve the uses of climate data, and recommendations for future research by the climate community. This opportunity for such interaction generated a universal agreement among the participants that more frequent exchanges between the providers and users of climate information be planned and that better communication between the providers and users of climate data and services be established. The workshop proceedings, which is being published by the Department of Energy, presents studies on the application of existing data to the diagnosis of the climatic component in energy supply and demand and the short-term prediction of regional scale energy requirements. Staff members of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Climate Data Center (NCDC) and Climate Analysis Center (CAC) review the currently available climate data and services. Four panel reports identify and enumerate the impacts of climate on each of the segments of the energy industry and offer recommendations for improvements, further research, and, in some cases, concepts for practical demonstrations of immediate potential value to the pertinent energy sector. The panel findings and the presentations of the invited speakers contain several common themes: the need for improved data formats, the significant potential benefits of increased lead time for the seasonal climate forecast, and the necessity for improved accuracy in the forecasts of monthly and seasonal means and extremes of temperature and precipitation. Workshop participants fully recognized the difficulty of making “real” progress on some of these commonly stated objectives; however, they also recognized that the benefits of striving to achieve these goals may, indeed, be sufficiently great to justify the quest for progress through focused research efforts.

scholarly journals Digital transformation of energy in the Russian Federation: project approach, realities and prospects

2021 ◽  
Vol 288 ◽  
pp. 01015
Author(s):  
Varvara Kulkova ◽  
Ekaterina Khusainova ◽  
Nina Serkina ◽  
Elena Dolonina ◽  
Zoya Shackih
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Electric Power Industry ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
Priority Task ◽  
The Russian Federation

The digital transformation of energy infrastructure is a priority task for the development of energy in the Russian Federation, implemented in a project-based approach - in the initiation of the departmental project “Digital Energy” by the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation. The project can get an additional impetus for development in the current conditions of the “crisis of 2020”, which are positioned as a trigger for digital transformations in the sectors of the economy. To what extent are the activities of the Digital Energy project aimed at digital transformation of the energy industry and do consumers see changes when they receive services? Should we expect an intensification of the digital transformation of the energy sector in the context of the 2020 crisis? The questions are acute and relevant, which determine the purpose of the study - to assess the digital transformation of the energy sector in the Russian Federation implemented in the project approach in the context of the “crisis of 2020”, revealing the expert opinion of the stakeholders. Research methods: end-to-end analysis of project activities in a comparative assessment with foreign factography; secondary analysis of interviews with top managers of energy enterprises on the issue of digitalization and digital transformation of energy; survey of individuals-consumers of electricity (N = 60). The conducted research provides a basis for the conclusion about the implementation of the digitalization process in the energy sector and does not allow identifying the conditions of the “crisis of 2020” as a trigger for the transition of digitalization to the digital transformation of the energy industry. Identified consumers-detractors, whose positions are working to identify “points of growth” of digital transformation of the electric power industry in the future.

Innovative Work Behavior in the Energy Sector by Fuzzy VIKOR Method

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-70
Author(s):  
Hasan Dinçer ◽  
Thomas Burkhardt
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Work Behavior ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
Vikor Method ◽  
Innovative Work Behavior ◽  
Fuzzy Vikor ◽  
Innovative Work ◽  
Energy Companies ◽  
Performance Ranking

The aim of this study is to analyze the innovative working behavior of the energy industry. Within this framework, 10 different energy companies in Turkey were included in the scope of the review. As a result of the literature review, five different criteria that could affect the performance of innovative working behavior of the energy companies were determined. The fuzzy VIKOR method has been taken into account in the performance ranking process of these companies. According to the results obtained, both private and foreign energy companies were in the first two and last two. The findings show that no company type has superiority over others in terms of innovative working behavior. Hence, it is important that the energy companies, which are in the last place, develop themselves by taking into account the criteria mentioned in this study.

scholarly journals CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR ROLE IN DIGITALIZATION OF ELECTRIC POWER FACILITIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (14) ◽  
pp. 22-25
Author(s):  
Yuriy Konovalov ◽  
Anton Vaygachev ◽  
Angelina Tihonova ◽  
Dmitriy Zhil'nikov
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Electric Power ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Cloud Technology ◽  
Irkutsk Region ◽  
Energy Service ◽  
Cloud Technologies

The model of cloud computing and the principle of its operation in relation to the energy service of the enterprise are considered. The classification of cloud technology categories is presented. The main features of using cloud technologies in enterprises, as well as information security in their work, are studied. The assessment of existing projects in the energy sector, as well as options for implementation in the Irkutsk region.

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