Electric Power Supply Chain Management Addressing Climate Change

Supply chain management played a critical role in the electric power industrial chain optimization. The purpose of this paper was to review a sample of the literatures relating to supply chain management and its possible applications in electricity power system, especially in the context of climate change. The study compared the difference between electric power supply chain management and traditional supply chain management. Furthermore, some possible research topics are addressed. The aim of this paper was to promote the application of supply chain management in the China electricity sector optimizations and brought a change in the related government policy options. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Harbin University of Science and Technology