Proactive Risk Disclosure Invoked by Engineer A Grid Stress Information
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/73#Proactive_Risk_Disclosure_Invoked_by_Engineer_A_Grid_Stress_Information
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Board report on solar replacement project
Rolling blackout risk to organization and community
Balancing with
Completeness and Non-Selectivity in Professional Advisory Opinions
Scope-of-Work Limitation as Incomplete Ethical Defense
Concrete expression
Engineer A must proactively communicate the rolling blackout risk to the board without waiting for the board to ask about grid reliability implications, recognizing that the board may not know to ask this question and that the risk was identified through Engineer A's own professional inquiry with the utility resource planner.
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Interpretation
Proactive disclosure is triggered by Engineer A's actual knowledge of the grid stress risk; having learned this information from the utility planner, Engineer A cannot ethically omit it from the report on the grounds that the board did not specifically request grid reliability analysis.
Invoked by
Engineer A
Tension resolution
The proactive disclosure obligation overrides any scope-of-work argument that grid reliability was not part of the original analysis mandate; Engineer A's actual knowledge of the risk triggers the disclosure obligation.
Source Evidence
Source text
When discussing the analysis of the electric load profile with a representative of the local electric utility, Engineer A learns that the utility resource planners reviewed their current generation mix and believe that during extreme weather events, they may be forced to institute rolling outages.
Text references
Engineer A also realizes that a move to solar production without storage may stress the local utility generation mix even more, increasing the likelihood of rolling blackouts.
When discussing the analysis of the electric load profile with a representative of the local electric utility, Engineer A learns that the utility resource planners reviewed their current generation mix and believe that during extreme weather events, they may be forced to institute rolling outages.
TTL
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case73:Proactive_Risk_Disclosure_Invoked_by_Engineer_A_Grid_Stress_Information a proeth:ProactiveRiskDisclosure,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Proactive Risk Disclosure Invoked by Engineer A Grid Stress Information" ;
proeth:appliedto "Board report on solar replacement project",
"Rolling blackout risk to organization and community" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Completeness and Non-Selectivity in Professional Advisory Opinions",
"Scope-of-Work Limitation as Incomplete Ethical Defense" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A must proactively communicate the rolling blackout risk to the board without waiting for the board to ask about grid reliability implications, recognizing that the board may not know to ask this question and that the risk was identified through Engineer A's own professional inquiry with the utility resource planner." ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "73" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-26T22:36:47.519403+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "73" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-26T22:36:47.519403+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Proactive disclosure is triggered by Engineer A's actual knowledge of the grid stress risk; having learned this information from the utility planner, Engineer A cannot ethically omit it from the report on the grounds that the board did not specifically request grid reliability analysis." ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A" ;
proeth:principleclass "Proactive Risk Disclosure" ;
proeth:sourcetext "When discussing the analysis of the electric load profile with a representative of the local electric utility, Engineer A learns that the utility resource planners reviewed their current generation mix and believe that during extreme weather events, they may be forced to institute rolling outages." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The proactive disclosure obligation overrides any scope-of-work argument that grid reliability was not part of the original analysis mandate; Engineer A's actual knowledge of the risk triggers the disclosure obligation." ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A also realizes that a move to solar production without storage may stress the local utility generation mix even more, increasing the likelihood of rolling blackouts.",
"When discussing the analysis of the electric load profile with a representative of the local electric utility, Engineer A learns that the utility resource planners reviewed their current generation mix and believe that during extreme weather events, they may be forced to institute rolling outages." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 73 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-26T22:54:37.522325"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 73 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
73
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-26T22:36:47.519403+00:00
First case
73
Generated
2026-02-26T22:36:47.519403+00:00
Attributed to
Case 73 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-26T22:54:37.522325
Generated by
ProEthica Case 73 Extraction