Designing Sustainable Energy for All: Sustainable Product-Service System Design Applied to Distributed Renewable Energy (Green Energy and Technology)
- Author
- Carlo Vezzoli, Fabrizio Ceschin, Lilac Osanjo, Mugendi K. M’Rithaa, Richie Moalosi, Venny Nakazibwe, Jan Carel Diehl
- Year
- 2018
An open-access 2018 study of how to extend renewable energy access to the roughly 1.4 billion people without reliable electricity, through Sustainable Product-Service System business models for Distributed Renewable Energy. It weighs the economic, environmental and social benefits of these approaches against their real-world limits and barriers.
An open-access study of how to deliver renewable energy to the 1.4 billion people without reliable electricity, via sustainable product-service business models. It binds the SDF's Technological and Economics concerns to the Sustainability motto — access as a design problem, not just an engineering one.
This open-access book, published in 2018, addresses the challenge of extending energy access in low- and middle-income regions, where around 1.4 billion people lack reliable electricity. Its authors analyse and classify Sustainable Product-Service System business models for delivering Distributed Renewable Energy, supporting the discussion with case studies that weigh the economic, environmental and social benefits of each approach alongside its limits and barriers. It is aimed at designers, industry, governmental institutions, NGOs and researchers working on energy access.
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- Designing Sustainability for All · by the same author: Carlo Vezzoli, Brenda Garcia, Cindy Kohtala
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- Evolution of design for sustainability: From product design to design for system innovations and transitions · by the same author: F. Ceschin, I. Gaziulusoy
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