Table 3 Themes identified in the energy informatics arranged based on the frequency

Energy Management

11

Mentler et al. (2018); Sangeeth Mathew (2018); Hodges and Salam (2018); Bordin et al. (2020); Danner et al. (2022); Yuan et al. (2021); Ahammed et al. (2022); Alahmed and Tong (2022); Richter and Staudt (2019); Förderer et al. (2021); Switzer and Raghavan (2021)

Energy Technology

10

Tang et al. (2021); Schumilin et al. (2018); Cao et al. (2022); Babak et al. (2021); Song et al. (2021); Cheng et al. (2022); Heghedus et al. (2018); Stamelos et al. (2018); Lazgheb et al. (2019); Meier and Dunn (2021)

Energy Forecasting

8

Oprea et al. (2018a); Hoog et al. (2021); Krome and Sander (2018); Heghedus et al. (2019a); Akhtar et al. (2022); Williams and Short (2020); Heghedus et al. (2019b); Halkos and Tsilika (2021)

Energy Safety and Security

8

Sultan and Hilton (2019); Wang et al. (2021); Eissa and Awadalla (2019); Llaria et al. (2021); Sedlmeir et al. (2021); Jahromi et al. (2021); Wu (2019); Bugaev et al. (2021)

Building Informatics

7

Lim et al. (2018); Kalmiş et al. (2019); Garlík (2022); Zhao et al. (2018); Watson et al. (2018); Al-Ghaili et al. (2020); Li et al. (2021)

Energy Digitization

5

Idries et al. (2022); Stewart et al. (2018); Al-Ghaili et al. (2021); Luna et al. (2019); Williams et al. (2020)

Energy Economics

5

Li et al. (2019); Grosse et al. (2019); Li et al. (2017; Wederhake et al. (2022); Kirpes and Becker (2018)

Household Energy Consumption

4

Kumar and Bhattacharjee (2018); Oprea et al. (2018b; Virtsionis Gkalinikis et al. (2022); Ai et al. (2019)

Energy Decisions

1

Kavuma et al. (2021)