Equilibrium strategy of economic cost and carbon emission reduction of green electric-coal supply chain

Abstract

As the government pays more attention to energy conservation and emission reduction in the energy industry, the contradiction between economic cost and carbon emission reduction in the electric-coal supply chain becomes more and more serious, which needs to be solved urgently. Therefore, based on the theory of green supply chain, this research constructs a dynamic multi-objective model under the uncertain decision-making environment with the realization of the equilibrium of the total economic cost and carbon emission of electric-coal supply chain as the decision goal, and taking the coal supply capacity and and other practical requirements as the constraints. The following equilibrium model is applied to a electric-coal supply chain in the southwestern region of Y Province. With full consideration of different carbon emission reduction scenarios, the total economic cost and carbon emission balance plan of electric-coal supply chain under five different emission reduction scenarios were obtained, which verified the practicability and effectiveness of the equilibrium model. The results show that the equilibrium model can effectively alleviate the conflict between the economic cost and carbon emission reduction. Finally, based on data analysis, we put forward management suggestions from macro, meso and micro levels to better realize the greenization of electric-coal supply chain.