Renewable Energy Supply Chain Planning considering Sustainable Production Value

Document Type : Research Paper

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Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran

Abstract

Energy resources are one of the most important factors and elements of sustainable development in any country. Therefore, according to the increasing need of countries for development, the amount of use of renewable energies has been increasing, so that one of the indicators of development is energy consumption. One of the processes that can be effective in any country to consider this importance and apply it to all work processes is supply chain management. Considering the importance of this issue, in the present research, an effort has been made to model the supply chain and decision-making at the level of macro-planning, taking into account the three dimensions of economic, social and environmental sustainability. The basis of this research is a mathematical programming approach and a method for modeling the renewable energy supply chain. An attempt has been made to model by considering the dynamics of valuation of indicators in the form of a supply chain and by solving the model using Lingo software, we can achieve a more stable solution at the planning level of the supply chain. Considering the capability of the process, as a quality criterion in the evaluation process of renewable energy indicators, as well as valuing the indicators in the first stage with the help of the data envelopment analysis, are innovations of this model. The results of solving this problem are a set of indicators that according to the conditions of the problem and the importance of each indicator in each layer of the supply chain, the most important ones are selected and applied to develop a suitable strategic plan framework for the development of this type of energy in the country.

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