Energy democracy: A digital future?

Judson, Emily; Fitch-Roy, Oscar; Soutar, Iain

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2022.102732

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“…The digitalization of the energy sector involves the reduction of harmful emissions, decarbonization and the operation of transport on coal. The authors of Judson et al (2022) argue that the development of digital infrastructure improves the well-being of citizens and the state of the environment. Digital technologies, note Salahuddin et al (2016) contribute to the development of innovations, reduction of harmful emissions and renewable sources in the country's energy system.…”

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The Impact of Energy Production on the Introduction of ICT and the Growth of AIC in Kazakhstan

Smagulova

Yermukhanbetova²,

Nurgaliyeva³

et al. 2023

IJEEP

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The presented work is devoted to the organization of the electric power industry and the agro-industrial complex of Kazakhstan. Here is given an economic analysis of the production capacity of the development of power plants. It is noted that more than 80% of electricity generation is carried out by coal-fired thermal power plants. Important attention is paid to the significant wear and tear of machinery and equipment at thermal power plants and state district power plants. The key focus of the work is on econometric modeling to identify patterns and quantify the impact of electricity production and digital farms on increasing agricultural production. The results of the regression model are substantiated using the applied statistical package EViews. A medium-term econometric forecast for the development of the agricultural sector is presented, considering the introduction of digital farms. Problems are revealed and measures to stimulate the construction of new energy facilities are considered. Also, proposals were made to enhance the use of investment projects of alternative energy sources in the country. At the same time, an important emphasis is considered at the level of enhanced development of ICT in the energy and agro-industrial complex. It has been established that the digitalization of the energy and agro-industrial complex sectors contributes to the economic growth of Kazakhstan.

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The Impact of Energy Production on the Introduction of ICT and the Growth of AIC in Kazakhstan

Smagulova

Yermukhanbetova²,

Nurgaliyeva³

et al. 2023

IJEEP

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A Collaborative Dimension for Renewable Energy Communities

Adu-Kankam

Camarinha-Matos

2023

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Democratizing AI from a Sociotechnical Perspective

Noorman,

Swierstra

2023

Minds & Machines

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies offer new ways of conducting decision-making tasks that influence the daily lives of citizens, such as coordinating traffic, energy distributions, and crowd flows. They can sort, rank, and prioritize the distribution of fines or public funds and resources. Many of the changes that AI technologies promise to bring to such tasks pertain to decisions that are collectively binding. When these technologies become part of critical infrastructures, such as energy networks, citizens are affected by these decisions whether they like it or not, and they usually do not have much say in them. The democratic challenge for those working on AI technologies with collectively binding effects is both to develop and deploy technologies in such a way that the democratic legitimacy of the relevant decisions is safeguarded. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework to help policymakers, project managers, innovators, and technologists to assess and develop approaches to democratize AI. This framework embraces a broad sociotechnical perspective that highlights the interactions between technology and the complexities and contingencies of the context in which these technologies are embedded. We start from the problem-based and practice-oriented approach to democracy theory as developed by political theorist Mark Warren. We build on this approach to describe practices that can enhance or challenge democracy in political systems and extend it to integrate a sociotechnical perspective and make the role of technology explicit. We then examine how AI technologies can play a role in these practices to improve or inhibit the democratic nature of political systems. We focus in particular on AI-supported political systems in the energy domain.

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Energy democracy: A digital future?

Cited by 13 publications

References 102 publications

The Impact of Energy Production on the Introduction of ICT and the Growth of AIC in Kazakhstan

The Impact of Energy Production on the Introduction of ICT and the Growth of AIC in Kazakhstan

A Collaborative Dimension for Renewable Energy Communities

Democratizing AI from a Sociotechnical Perspective

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