IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/appene/v410y2026ics0306261926001960.html

Biomass procurement and supplier diversification for energy generation: Optimization models and insights

Author

Listed:
  • Muñoz, Felipe T.

Abstract

This study addresses the challenge of designing cost-efficient and resilient biomass procurement strategies by integrating supplier diversification and contractual flexibility into a mathematical optimization framework. We formulate a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model that captures key characteristics of the procurement context, including biomass heterogeneity, moisture variability, storage capacity constraints, logistics, and monthly energy demand. The model reflects the operational and contractual conditions faced in the strategic design of biomass supply chains. A multi-objective extension is introduced to analyze trade-offs between minimizing procurement costs and maximizing the number of contracted biomass profiles, which serves as a proxy for supply diversification.

Suggested Citation

  • Muñoz, Felipe T., 2026. "Biomass procurement and supplier diversification for energy generation: Optimization models and insights," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 410(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:410:y:2026:i:c:s0306261926001960
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2026.127544
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261926001960
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.apenergy.2026.127544?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:410:y:2026:i:c:s0306261926001960. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/405891/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.