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Future energy services: empowering local communities and citizens
Kirsi Hyytinen,Marja Toivonen +1 more
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In this article, the authors examined the future prospects of innovative services linked to sustainable energy systems and examined service perspective in the context of socio-technical transition and linked to the bottom-up and top-down social processes that foster sustainability.Abstract:
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the future prospects of innovative services linked to sustainable energy systems. Design/methodology/approach – Service perspective is examined in the context of socio-technical transition and linked to the bottom-up and top-down social processes that foster sustainability. The foresight method applied is trend analysis. Findings – Two groups of trends were identified: the trends driven by technological development and the trends focussing on societal, managerial and consumer issues. The former consists of renewable energy sources, hybrid solutions, smart grids and smart energy markets. The latter involves distributed energy production, demand response, optimisation of sustainability and the role of energy as an opportunity and as service. The study reveals that energy is increasingly understood as a comprehensive and tailor-made service solution for communities and individual households. Consumers will enter the energy market as active participants; it ra...read more
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Typology of future clean energy communities: An exploratory structure, opportunities, and challenges
Emi Minghui Gui,Iain MacGill +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the potential significance of clean energy communities (CECs) in the transformation of the present socio-technical regimes underlying our centralized energy systems, towards a more distributed and decentralized future.
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Citizen or consumer? Reconsidering energy citizenship
Breffní Lennon,Niall P. Dunphy,Christine Gaffney,Alexandra Revez,Gerard Mullally,Paul O’Connor +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the transition to more sustainable energy systems has set about redefining the social roles and responsibilities of citizens. Implicit in this are expectations around participation, though the prec...
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Sustainability-oriented service innovation: An emerging research field
TL;DR: The literature review confirmed both the growing amount of research on service innovation in relation to sustainability, as well as the lack of an overarching field to clearly identify such a phenomenon as discussed by the authors.
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Service innovation for sustainability: paths for greening through service innovation
Faridah Djellal,Faïz Gallouj +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the extent to which services and service innovation can contribute to sustainable development in its environmental dimension, arguing that the supposed immateriality of services seems to argue in favour of their natural sustainability.
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Future-oriented impact assessment: Supporting strategic decision-making in complex socio-technical environments:
Mika Nieminen,Kirsi Hyytinen +1 more
TL;DR: The article proposes a systemic and future-oriented evaluation approach designed to support decision-making in complex socio-technical environments that integrates established methods of evaluation, foresight, impact assessment, system dynamic modelling and societal embedding within a single framework.
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