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Carlo VezzoliPolitecnico di Milano / DESIGN dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy

carlo vezzolipolitecnico di milano . DESIGN dept. . DIS . School of Design . Italy

Learning Network on Sustainability (EU asia-link)Learning Network on Sustainabile energy systems (EU edulink)

course System Design for Sustainability (SDS)

learning resource 5.1

System design for sustainable energy for all


. sustainable development is not possible without a sustainable energy for all

. Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE): key leverage for a sustainable development

. Sustainable Product-Service System (S.PSS): a promising model for Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE)

. System Design for Sustainable energy for all: a new design role (to be defined)

CONTENTS


1. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR ALL


source: http://www.un.org/en/events/sustainableenergyforall/index.shtml


energy is the world’s largest industrial sectorwhose output is an essential input to almost every good and service

energy services have a profound effect on productivity, health, education, food and water security, and communication services

access to energy can contribute to reduce inequality and poverty


“SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT SUSTAINABLE ENERGY”

UNITED NATIONS: “2012 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR ALL”

UNITED NATIONS:“Rio+20”, 2012 SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT


THE EXISTING ENERGY SYSTEM IN DEFINITELY UNSUSTAINABLE!

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REQUIRE A PARADIGM SHIFT IN ENERGY SECTOR


2. DISTRIBUTED RENEWABLE ENERGY: KEY LEVERAGE FOR A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT


… a paradigm shift alternative to traditional non-renewable and centralised (e.g. fossil fuels) system of energy generation and distribution

non-renewable RESOURCES renewable

centralized decentralised distributed

DISTRIBUTED RENEWABLE ENERGY: a promising model aiming at sustainable energy for all


DISTRIBUTED RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION: CHARACTERISTICS

. renewable resources: sun, wind, water, biomass,

geothermal energy

. small-scale generation plants

. generation at/near the point of use

. users is the producer: individuals, small businesses and/or communities

. if connected with each other > Renewable Local Energy Network (connected with similar Network)


“a small-scale generation plants sourced by renewable energy resources (such as sun, wind, water, biomass and geothermal energy), at or near the point of use, where the users is the producer, whether an individuals, a small businesses and/or a local community and if nearby generation plants connected with each other (to synergically share the energy surplus), they become Renewable Local Energy Network; eventually connected with nearby similar Networks.”

[Vezzoli, Delfino, 2013]

DISTRIBUTED RENEWABLE ENERGY: DEFINITION


FOSSIL FUELS (OIL, COKE, …) + CENTRALISED

environmental un-sustainability: most of CO2

emissions > global warming + extraction pollution

socio-ethic un-sustainability: extraction, production,

distribution infrastructure, complex and CENTRALISED >

reduction of diffused direct access to resources >

low power to individual over their own destiny >

widening of rich AND poor gap (inequality)


RENEWABLE RESOURCES (SUN, WIND, …) + DISTRIBUTED

environmental sustainability: non-exhaustable + low greenhouse gases + lower environmental impact for extraction, transformation, distribution

socio-ethic sustainability: “distrib. renew. energy gen.”sun, wind, … acquisition: local + with simple processes > micro-plants installable/manageable by small economic entity > user-producer > energetic micro network building > global network of micro network> access, self-sufficiency, power (and interdependency) to individuals and local communities > resources democratisation > inequality reduction


THE SHIFT FROMCENTRALISED AND NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES (I.E. FOSSIL FUELS) TO DISTRIBUTED AND RENEWABLE ONES’ (I.E. SUN, WIND, ETC.) …

… IT IS A FUNDAMERNTAL PILLAR TO MATCH ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIO-ETHICAL AND ECONOMIC SUTAINABILITY


UNITED NATIONSSUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR ALL (SE4ALL)

aims at :. ensuring universal access to modern energy services. doubling the rate of improvement in energy efficiency. DOUBLING THE SHARE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY IN THE GLOBAL ENERGY MIX BY 2030


“the creation of a renewable energy regime, loaded by buildings, partially stored in the form of hydrogen, distributed via an energy internet—a smart intergrid—and connected to plug in zero emission transport, opens the door to a Third Industrial Revolution.”

[Rifkin, 2011]

THE THIRD INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION


1. shifting to renewable energy (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, ocean waves and biomass)

2. buildings as power plants3. deploying hydrogen and other storage

technologies in every building and throughout the infrastructure to store intermittent energies

4. using internet technology to transform the power grid of every continent into an energy sharing intergrid that acts just like the internet

5. transitioning the transport fleet to electric, plug in and fuel cell vehicles that can buy and sell electricity on a smart continental interactive power grid

PILLARS OF THE THIRD INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

[Rifkin, 2011]


3. SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEM (S.PSS): A PROMISING MODEL FOR DISTRIBUTED RENEWABLE ENERGY (DRE)


… a paradigm shift from traditional individual consumption/ownership systems

PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS (PSS):an offer/business models capable of creating (new) value decoupling it from the materials and energy consumption and reducing the environmental impact

product SELLING “unit of satisfaction”

individual ownership CUSTOMER VALUE access


S.PSS FOR DRE IN LOW-INCOME CONTEXTS: AN EXAMPLE


SOLAR HOME KITSelectricity + lamps > light

it is environmentally sustainable because it uses the solar energy + it is socioethically sustainable because give to poor people access to useful services + it is economically sustainable because is a business for TSSFA company.

TSSFA company offers to Brasilian rural people a solar home kits that include the hardware to generate solar energy + the installation service + products that use the electricity, e.g. lighting and electrical outlets. Customers sign a three-year service contract (all of the tangible inputs are owned by the provider).


A RESEARCH WORKING HYPOTHESISS.PSS APPLIED TO DRE: SUSTAINABLE OPPORTUNITIES IN LOW/MIDDLE INCOME (ALL) CONTEXTS:

“A S.PSS approach may act as a business opportunity to facilitate the diffusion of DRE-based value production system (satisfaction system) in low and middle-income (all) contexts, reducing the (initial) cost of access to energy, resulting in a key leverage for a sustainable development process aiming at democratizing access to resources, goods and services.”

[LeNSes proposal, EU edulink project, 2013-2016]


. Product-Service System (PSS) design for Sustainability: an emerging role, the LeNS approaches

. Sustainable Product-Service System (S.PSS): a promising model for Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE)

4. SYSTEM DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY (FOR ALL): A NEW DESIGN ROLE (TO BE DEFINED)


LeNSes DESIGN WORKING HYPOTHESISthere is the need to DEVELOP AND DIFFUSE NEW COMPETENCES IN:

System design for sustainable energy (for all):the design of the system of products and services for an on-site Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) generation able to “power” the fulfillment of customer demand/s (“unit of satisfaction” powered by that energy) with accessible cost; an offer model based on an innovative interactions of the stakeholders (of the “satisfaction” production system) where the economic and competitive interest of the providers continuously seeks after both environmentally and socio-ethically beneficial new solutions; eventually including the offer of a local energy network.


FINAL REMARKS

AN EMERGING SYSTEM DESIGN ROLE FOR SUSTAINABILITY

form “APPROPRAITE TECHNOLOGIES” DESIGNto“APPROPRIATE STAKEHOLER CONFIGURATION” DESIGN, ADDRESSED TO S.PSS AND DRE


Product-Service System design for

SustainabilityLeNS approach, method, tools

SYSTEM DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY (FOR ALL)

(knowledge-base and know-how)

Distributed Renewable

Energy (DRE) design and engineering

Social entrepreneurship for sustainable

development

DISSEMINATION IN HEIS: LEARNING-BY-SHARING WITH OPEN AND COPY LEFT ETHOS


MULO is an open system project aiming at promoting sustainable mobility Product-Service System in low and middle income contexts based on the use of vehicles powered by solar, electric and human power

Cape Town

Rio de Janeiro

Basanti - IndiaBurkina Faso

Zambia

MULO SYSTEMOPEN PROJECT

Politecnico di Milanosocio-technical experiment

incubation

S.PSS detailed design

Brunell University

(by fabrizio ceschin)


SYSTEM AND PILOT PROJECT DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY SYSTEM FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF DISABLED PEOPLE IN CAPE TOWN SUBURBS, SOUTH AFRICA

BASED ON MULO SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY OPEN PROJECT

detailed designdetailed designof service and of service and stakaholder stakaholder inetractionsinetractions

design of transition design of transition path and of socio-path and of socio-technical experimenttechnical experiment

pilot project pilot project implementationimplementationdetailed product designdetailed product design

http://muloafrica.wordpress.com

Politecnico di Milano

Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Shonaquip

Benbikes

Philiza Abafazi Bethu

PARTNERS

first pilot launch, Cape Town:12 October 2011

5.1 system design for sustainable energy for all vezzoli 13_14_(28)

Technology

milano design

school of design italy

design dept

school of design italy

renewable energy generation

energy sector

geothermal energy

renewable energy resources