**2. Literature Review**

The literature review is divided into several key topics concerning the addressed problem. These topics include power sector and market characteristics, energy managemen<sup>t</sup> and energy consumption in manufacturing companies, energy managemen<sup>t</sup> system, and simulation modeling in energy management. The literature studied on each topic can be seen in Table 1, and only the most relevant literature is cited in the text.


**Table 1.** Literature review structure and resources.


**Table 1.** *Cont*.
