Production Cost Minimization Considering Integrated Carbon and Electricity Trading System

This study presents a production decision model that minimizes costs in an industrial production plant for carbon and electricity consumption under a joint carbon-electricity trading system. The motivation is to offer users a way to reduce their production costs within this integrated carbon and electricity trading framework. The model utilizes a cap-and-trade scheme for carbon trading and takes into account hourly electricity prices, carbon credit prices, electricity consumption required for production, and carbon emissions during production. Using the Mixed Integer Programming method, the optimization model effectively minimizes costs, leading to significant savings.