Designing sustainable energy for all : sustainable product-service system design applied to distributed renewable energy
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2018Author
Vezzoli, Carlo
Ceschin, Fabrizio
Osanjo, Lilac
M’Rithaa, Mugendi K.
Moalosi, Richie
Nakazibwe, Venny
Diehl, Jan Carel
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It gives me great honour and privilege to contribute with the foreword for this book,
as a collaboration between Africa and Europe towards sustainable energy for All.
The book is a transdisciplinary text with the latest knowledge-base, know-how and
experiences in sustainable energy for All system development and design. Indeed, it
presents the key role of design in providing sustainable energy solutions to human
society in its quest for continuous improvement and socioeconomic development.
Africa is blessed with a variety of sustainable energy resources, including solar,
hydropower, wind, mini/micro hydro and geothermal resources. However, lack of
access to adequate and sustainable energy services remains one of the major constraints to economic development on the continent. We, therefore, urgently need to
encourage and incentivize our scientists, researchers and research institutions, businesses and industries, supported by development partners and governments, to invest
more in research, education, curricula development and designing feasible and
bankable renewable energy projects, that will enable Africa to exploit and utilise the
continent’s vast energy resources for social economic development. From the LeNSes
project and from this book, a proposal was developed in this direction. Indeed, the
Sustainable Product-Service System (S.PSS) model applied to the Distributed
Renewable Energy (DRE) one, a promising win-win combined model towards sustainable energy for All, in fact, promoting the leapfrog from individual ownership of
energy systems to collective access to sustainable energy. To design and implement
such new models, the book presents the knowledge-base, the design approach, the
design process and related tools developed and tested during the LeNSes project.
It is my opinion that this book can effectively contribute to promote a win-win
approach towards sustainable energy solutions, which has been developed in the
African continent, and can be replicated elsewhere for the universal attainment of
sustainable energy for All.
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