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==Introduction== | |||
<blockquote>As a crucial element of our overall energy and climate strategy, we need to ensure that our energy infrastructure is sustainable, goal-oriented and operational. - Miguel Arias Cañete, European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy</blockquote> | |||
The energy sector represents the critical infrastructure upon which all other economic activities, modern life conveniences, and services—including the wide spectrum of information and communication technologies (ICT)—are based. The expected demands on the energy sector over the coming years will be immense due to the proliferation of ICT technologies and their ubiquitous use in all aspects of social and economic life. | |||
Many factors will increase society’s electricity demands in Europe, such as the advent of [[internet of things]]{{Efn|"The interconnection via the Internet of computing devices embedded in everyday objects, enabling them to send and receive data." [https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/internet_of_things Source]}} (IoT) sensors, the increased digitization of social life due to robotics and [[blockchain]]{{Efn|"A system in which a record of transactions made in bitcoin or another cryptocurrency are maintained across several computers that are linked in a peer-to-peer network." [https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/blockchain Source]. The term is now used for recording exchanges beyond cryptocurrency.}}, the further digitization of industry, and the transition from vehicles using fossil fuel to electric vehicles. In parallel, to tackle climate change and decrease reliance on imported fossil fuels, Europe is pushing for greater integration of renewables in the mix of energy production sources. In combination, both put great pressure on the capacity of Europe’s pre-existing energy distribution network infrastructure, which cannot currently scale up to meet expected demands, at least not if managed in traditional ways. European countries have two options<ref name="ECBench14">{{cite web |url=https://ses.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/reports/benchmarking-smart-metering-deployment-eu-27-focus-electricity |title=Benchmarking smart metering deployment in the EU-27 with a focus on electricity |author=European Commission |publisher=Publications Office of the European Union |date=17 June 2014}}</ref>: invest in upgrading energy infrastructure networks or optimize the use of the existing infrastructure capacity by utilizing smart information systems (SIS). | |||
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Revision as of 18:15, 29 July 2019
| Full article title | Smart grids and ethics: A case study |
|---|---|
| Journal | ORBIT Journal |
| Author(s) | Hatzakis, Tally; Rodrigues, Rowena; Wright, David |
| Author affiliation(s) | Trilateral Research |
| Primary contact | Email: Tally dot Hatzakis at trilateralresearch dot com |
| Year published | 2019 |
| Volume and issue | 2(2) |
| Page(s) | 108 |
| DOI | 10.29297/orbit.v2i2.108 |
| ISSN | 2515-8562 |
| Distribution license | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| Website | https://www.orbit-rri.org/ojs/index.php/orbit/article/view/108 |
| Download | https://www.orbit-rri.org/ojs/index.php/orbit/article/view/108/119 (PDF) |
Abstract
This case study explores the principal ethical issues that occur in the use of smart information systems (SIS) in smart grids and offers suggestions as to how they might be addressed. Key issues highlighted in the literature are reviewed. The empirical case study describes one of the largest distribution system operators (DSOs) in the Netherlands. The aim of this case study is to identify which ethical issues arise from the use of SIS in smart grids, the current efforts of the organization to address them, and whether practitioners are facing additional issues not addressed in current literature. The literature review highlights mainly ethical issues around health and safety, privacy and informed consent, cyber-risks and energy security, affordability, equity, and sustainability. The key topics raised by interviewees revolved around privacy and to some extent cybersecurity. This may be due to the prevalence of the issue within the sector and the company in particular or due to the positions held by interviewees in the organization. Issues of sectorial dynamics and public trust, codes of conduct, and regulation were raised in the interviews, which are not discussed in the literature. Rather, this paper hence highlights the ability of case studies to identify ethical issues not covered (or covered to an inadequate degree) in the academic literature which are facing practitioners in the energy sector.
Keywords: smart grids, ethics, big data
Introduction
As a crucial element of our overall energy and climate strategy, we need to ensure that our energy infrastructure is sustainable, goal-oriented and operational. - Miguel Arias Cañete, European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy
The energy sector represents the critical infrastructure upon which all other economic activities, modern life conveniences, and services—including the wide spectrum of information and communication technologies (ICT)—are based. The expected demands on the energy sector over the coming years will be immense due to the proliferation of ICT technologies and their ubiquitous use in all aspects of social and economic life.
Many factors will increase society’s electricity demands in Europe, such as the advent of internet of things[a] (IoT) sensors, the increased digitization of social life due to robotics and blockchain[b], the further digitization of industry, and the transition from vehicles using fossil fuel to electric vehicles. In parallel, to tackle climate change and decrease reliance on imported fossil fuels, Europe is pushing for greater integration of renewables in the mix of energy production sources. In combination, both put great pressure on the capacity of Europe’s pre-existing energy distribution network infrastructure, which cannot currently scale up to meet expected demands, at least not if managed in traditional ways. European countries have two options[1]: invest in upgrading energy infrastructure networks or optimize the use of the existing infrastructure capacity by utilizing smart information systems (SIS).
Footnotes
- ↑ "The interconnection via the Internet of computing devices embedded in everyday objects, enabling them to send and receive data." Source
- ↑ "A system in which a record of transactions made in bitcoin or another cryptocurrency are maintained across several computers that are linked in a peer-to-peer network." Source. The term is now used for recording exchanges beyond cryptocurrency.
References
- ↑ European Commission (17 June 2014). "Benchmarking smart metering deployment in the EU-27 with a focus on electricity". Publications Office of the European Union. https://ses.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/reports/benchmarking-smart-metering-deployment-eu-27-focus-electricity.
Notes
This presentation is faithful to the original, with only a few minor changes to presentation, grammar, and punctuation. In some cases important information was missing from the references, and that information was added. To more easily differentiate footnotes from references, the original footnotes (which where numbered) were updated to use lowercase letters.
