Current status and future trends in energy management

Valentin Bertsch and Reinhard Madlener

Chapter 1 in Research Handbook on Energy Management, 2025, pp 2-29 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Energy management evolved in the 1970s in response to the oil crises and, in the beginning, mainly referred to energy demand and cost reduction. Since then, the relevance and nature of energy management have changed fundamentally. In particular, the strong increase in energy from renewable sources brings about increasing fluctuations and uncertainty on the energy supply side. This chapter provides an overview of trends and challenges related to energy management and presents a categorization of energy management activities, which is yet lacking. We observe that the discipline has evolved historically by demand rather than having been developed systematically and that, while research in energy management is growing, there is a lack of transferable blueprints that could be used by practitioners to decarbonize energy end use. Such blueprints should highlight the role of sector-coupling technologies for managing supply fluctuations and decarbonizing energy end use.

Keywords: Modern energy management; Generalizable concepts; Blueprints; Energy system transformation; Fluctuation management; Sector-coupling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781800376496
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