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A proposal for energy services' classification including a product service systems perspective

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posted on 2023-06-09, 14:02 authored by Miriam Benedetti, Vittorio Cesarotti, Maria HolgadoMaria Holgado, Vito Introna, Marco Macchi
Western manufacturing companies have lately started to rethink their approach to sustainability, mainly because of three different issues arising in the international context: the economic and financial crisis that has been slowing down the international markets' growth, the necessity to increase competitiveness and the growing awareness of environmental and energy problems. This process has eventually led to the spread of servitization strategies causing the transformation of several equipment/components manufacturers into service providers, as well as to the creation of the concept of Product-Service Systems (PSS). Furthermore, a more focused attention to energy efficiency has arisen, with the dual objective of both containing costs and meeting international regulations. The intersection of these two development paths is the constant increase in the supply of energy services, which can be marketed together with devices, machines or energy vectors, creating a peculiar form of PSS. In the present work, a new classification is proposed to map different types of energy services, based on existing categorizations of PSS and enriching them with new parameters which are typical of energy services literature, such as the level of risks sharing. The main objective of this work is to highlight the tight connection between the provision of energy services and the concepts of PSS and sustainability, in order to provide a new general classification for energy services, discussed separately and fragmentary so far in literature.

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  • Published

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Journal

Procedia CIRP 30

ISSN

2212-8271

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

30

Page range

251-256

Event name

7th Industrial Product-Service Systems Conference - PSS, industry transformation for sustainability and business

Event location

Saint Etienne, France.

Event type

conference

Event date

21-22 May 2015

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  • Business and Management Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2018-07-04

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-07-04

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-07-03

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