Journal of Renewable Energy and Smart Device
Vol. 4 No. 1 August 2026

Sustainable Production Optimization under Resource and Environmental Constraints: Evidence from North Sumatra’s Industrial Sector

Meslin Silahahi (Universitas Sisingamangaraja XII Tapanuli Utara, Indonesia)
Lia Saniah (Universitas Muhammadiyah Sukabumi)



Article Info

Publish Date
20 Aug 2026

Abstract

This study develops an energy- and emission-constrained production-allocation model for North Sumatra to balance economic performance, resource availability, and environmental limits. A quantitative applied-operations-research design used January–December 2025 operational records from 150 medium- and large-scale manufacturing establishments across six subsectors. Provincial totals were estimated using an overall expansion factor of 8.667 as a uniform-factor approximation to the stratified estimator because stratum-specific population weights were unavailable. Multi-objective linear programming with AUGMECON-R compared observed, economic-only, resource-constrained, environmentally constrained, and integrated scenarios. The economic-only solution was projected to increase contribution margin by IDR 3.32 trillion (11.7%) but also increase energy use by 5.18 PJ and greenhouse gas emissions by 0.69 MtCO2e. The integrated solution increased projected contribution margin by IDR 1.65 trillion (5.8%) while reducing raw materials by 6.6%, energy by 12.2%, water by 15.2%, greenhouse gas emissions by 21.2%, solid waste by 21.5%, and wastewater by 21.6%. Production shifted most toward rubber and plastics (+12.4%) and away from non-metallic minerals/fabricated metals (−13.3%). The Pareto frontier retained 94.7% of the economic-only contribution margin at an 80% combined resource-and-environmental ceiling, declining to 90.5% at 75% and 84.0% at 70%, indicating a sharper trade-off below approximately 75–80%. The study contributes a province-level cross-subsector framework linking production allocation with demand-side energy and emissions benchmarks for industrial efficiency and renewable-energy planning.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JORESD

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Subject

Computer Science & IT Control & Systems Engineering Electrical & Electronics Engineering Engineering

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Computer Engineering Computer Architecture, Parallel and Distributed Computer, Pervasive Computing, Computer Network, Embedded System, Human—Computer Interaction, Virtual/Augmented Reality, Computer Security, VLSI Design-Network Traffic Modeling, Performance Modeling, Dependable Computing, High ...