Energy management ethics: technology assessment and responsible innovation

Rafaela Hillerbrand and Armin Grunwald

Chapter 3 in Research Handbook on Energy Management, 2025, pp 50-73 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Ethical considerations play an increasingly important role in energy policies; intergenerational justice considerations are driving multiple changes to the energy sector: for example, climate change or limited fossil fuel resources demand a transition toward more renewable energy sources and greener private transport options. These considerations in turn generate new ethical challenges, such as when digital enabling technologies that support the energy transition entail privacy issues for end users. These and other ethical concerns are rather new to the energy sector and pose serious challenges for management, as for example the short timescales on which digitalization occurs contrast with the traditionally large investment time spans within the energy system of several decades. This chapter provides an overview of major debates from the academic literature on energy and ethics as they relate to practical management and aims to sketch first steps toward operationalization based on responsible innovation RI or technology assessment TA.

Keywords: Energy ethics; Responsible innovation; Modeling; NIMBY; “not in my backyard”; Risk management; Precautionary principle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781800376496
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