Renewable energy (RE) is a driving force in the effort to sustain the earth’s natural resources. Due to growing energy demand and environmental concerns, renewable/sustainable energy technologies are critical to protect environmental resources and to improve the quality of life. The United Nation Paris Agreement(2015) states that Renewable energy has the potential to play an important role in providing sustainable energy for the world community. Several renewable energy sources have been introduced as alternatives to traditional sources. In order to achieve sustainable energy supply, we discuss renewable energy sources from a supply chain perspective and investigate renewable energies focusing on four main components: renewable energy supply chain, renewable energy performance, and barriers and strategies to its development. The study provides managerial insights to governments, researchers, and stakeholders for the initiation of renewable energy use, and suggestions for overcoming the barriers to its development.

Outline:

(1) Why raise the issue?

(2) Challenges

(3) Introduction to renewable energy 

(4) Renewable energy supply chains

(5) Performance of energy supply chains

(6) Barriers to renewable energy development

(7) Improving the renewable energy supply chain

Professor Wee is an Adjunct Chair Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He has received his B.S. degree (honors) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Strathclyde University (UK), M. Eng. from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Cleveland State University, Ohio (USA). He has received an excellent research award from the Ministry of Science & Technology, excellent life researcher award and the Medal for Distinguished Industrial Engineer Award. He has published more than 500 papers in refereed journals, international conferences and book chapters, of which, more than 300 papers are SCI & SSCI index. His papers were cited over 14,169 times in Google scholar with h-index: 61. Professor Dr. Hui-Ming Wee is ranked among the top 2.5% of world-wide ResearchGate members in the world. In 2020, he was listed top 2% scientists of the world in Operations Research discipline. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Communication Technologies, Special issue Editor, Annual of Operations Research Journal, on “Emerging Trends in Inventory, Supply Chain & Reliability Modelling" and former Associate Editor, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization (JIMO).  List 14 among 200 Chinese top Scholars in PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan for 2023 Academic Impact Ranking of Global Scholars.