Accelerated innovation in renewable energy technologies drives the energy transition, but it can also intensify end-of-life material risks and expose the transition to a form of systemic fragility. This conceptual paper examines those ethical tensions across photovoltaic modules, wind-turbine blades, and lithium-ion batteries. It advances a normative argument grounded in Hans Jonas’s imperative of responsibility, Rawls’s just savings principle, Gardiner’s “perfect moral storm,” and Science and Technology Studies critiques of technological determinism. It further conceptualizes resilience as the capacity of the renewable-energy material–institutional system to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and transform in response to technology turnover, resource constraints, and decommissioning pressures without shifting uncompensated ecological burdens to future generations or marginalized communities. The paper therefore connects responsible decommissioning to the 2030 Agenda’s integrated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDGs 7, 9, 12, 13, and 17, and reframes governance as a multi-actor sustainability transition rather than a voluntary manufacturer response. It concludes that bounded acceleration—linking deployment, design, repairability, take-back, recycling, public information, and accountability across the life cycle—is a moral and institutional condition of a just and resilient energy transition.