Job scheduling under Time-of-Use energy tariffs for sustainable manufacturing: a survey

Daniele Catanzaro (), Raffaele Pesenti and Roberto Ronco
Additional contact information
Daniele Catanzaro: Université catholique de Louvain, LIDAM/CORE, Belgium

No 3273, LIDAM Reprints CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: The combined increase of energy demand and environmental pollution on a global scale is forcing a rethinking, in sustainable terms, of energy supply policies and production models. To flatten demand peaks in power plants, energy suppliers adopted pricing policies that stimulate a change in the consumption practices of customers. One example of such policies is the Time-of-Use (TOU)-based tariffs, which en- courage electricity usage at off-peak hours using low prices while penalizing peak hours with higher prices. To avoid a sharp rise in energy supply costs, the manufacturing industry must carefully reschedule the production processes, by shifting them toward less expensive periods. TOU-based tariffs impose specific constraints on the completion of the jobs involved in the production processes as well as a partitioning of the time horizon of the production into a set of time slots, whose associated cost becomes part of the optimization objective. In this article, we review the flourishing literature on job scheduling under TOU-based energy tariffs. Our purpose is to provide researchers and practitioners with a framework that may guide them toward the most important theoretical results on the topic as well as the most prominent practical applications in sustainable manufacturing.

Keywords: Scheduling; Energy efficiency; Time-of-use tariffs; Sustainable manufacturing; Combinatorial optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19
Date: 2023-01-01
Note: In: European Journal of Operational Research, 2023, vol. 308(3), p. 1091-1109
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cor:louvrp:3273

DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2023.01.029

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in LIDAM Reprints CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) Voie du Roman Pays 34, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Alain GILLIS ().