Industrial Chain, Supply Chain and Value Chain in the Energy Industry: Opportunities and Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

Repeated geopolitical conflicts, frequent energy trade wars and other affairs severely impact on the construction of energy market globalization. Current/future energy transformation hot topics of interest include how to expand the industry chain, supply chain and value chain of the energy industry and how to improve the market-oriented allocation of energy through the use of new strengths and novel ways of undergoing profound changes. At present, data factors have become a new driving force supporting and leading economic development, promoting the energy revolution and accelerating the development of digital technology for the construction of a global and regional energy market, providing a novel governance concept, theory, methods and models; the traditional energy system’s “Double high” and “Double peak” characteristics highlight the recurring coal-power conflicts, causing the market-based reform of oil and gas pipelines to falter. In the face of strong signals speeding up the digitization of energy as well as the multitude of challenges facing large-scale and high-proportion grid-connected new energy, distributed power supply and microgrid access, it is urgent to apply digital thinking to solve the “Impossible triangle” of energy security, economic and efficiency development, whilst also providing an opportunity to improve the digital governance of the energy industry.

Therefore, it is very important to take this opportunity to clarify the digital governance of the industry chain, supply chain and value chain in the energy industry; whether or not we can improve the efficiency of the energy industry market factor allocation in the tide of the rapid development of the digital economy and other topics related to the developmental needs of the energy market reform and globalization construction in the future.

Dr. Jiachao Peng
Dr. Le Wen
Prof. Dr. Jianzhong Xiao
Prof. Dr. Ming Yi
Dr. Mingyue (Selena) Sheng
Guest Editors

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