Renewable energy in sustainable supply chain: A review

• Published in: Revista Facultad de Ingeniería no. 104; pp. 152 - 167
• Main Authors: Marques, Eduardo do Carmo, Guimarães, Vanessa, De Azevedo-Ferreira, Maxwel, Mancebo Boloy, Ronney
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Medellín Universidad de Antioquía 01-07-2022; Universidad de Antioquia
• Subjects: Alternative energy sources; Biodiesel fuels; Biofuels; Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Context; Decision making; Emissions; Energy consumption; Energy policy; Environmental impact; Greenhouse effect; Greenhouse gases; Manufacturing; Optimization; Photovoltaics; Renewable energy; Renewable energy sources; Renewable resources; Renewable sources; Software; supply chain; Supply chain sustainability; Supply chains; Sustainability management; Sustainable development; sustainable process; Brazil
• ISSN: 0120-6230; 2422-2844
• DOI: 10.17533/udea.redin.20210956

In the search of sustainable process and products, ecofriendly policies have been developed over the years, aiming at reducing the environmental impacts as a step toward sustainability. Among the environmental impacts, alternatives to mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions - GHG stand out due to the concerns with climate change. Then, the development and use of renewable resources become relevant. Considering that supply chains are intense in energy consumption and GHG emissions (since involves processes related to supply, production, transport, consumption), it becomes relevant to investigate if the management of sustainable supply chain are considering the renewable energies in their processes. Therefore, this paper aims at mapping the role of renewable energies in the context of sustainable supply chain, analyzing the literature published at Web of Science database - WoS about the subject. The main researchers, organizations, collaboration networks were presented, and the 21 most cited studies were mapped in this paper. The research was carried out with the papers published at WoS until 2019, using VantagePoint software to handle information. The findings show that the research about renewable energy in the context of sustainable supply chain has been growing, especially since 2010. Moreover, biomass, biofuels and photovoltaic energy were the most recurrent sources of renewable energy studied by most cited papers. However, the theme presented itself as new and that there are still potential to be explored.