Sustainable Product-Service System (S.PSS) applied to Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) in low and middle income (all) contexts: a Scenario tool for designers.

In the framework of the Sustainable Energy for All decade (United Nations, SE4All 2014-2024), the LeNSes project - the Learning Network for Sustainable energy systems, (Edulink II programme, EU funded - 2013-2016) aims at develop and disseminate in African and European Higher Education Institutions an emerging design discipline: System Design for Sustainable Energy for All (SD4SEA), where the focus is the approach of Sustainable Product-Service Systems Design for sustainable energy for All. The paper presents the Scenario tool, within the SD4SEA discipline, aimed at inspire and inform designers and design students, through new visions of Sustainable Product-Service System (S.PSS) as promising model to diffuse Distributed Renewable Energies (DRE) in low and middle-income contexts (Research Hypothesis of the LeNSes project). The paper introduces the Scenario contents and design process; as well as the experiences using the Scenario during pilot, curricular and lifelong learning courses of the LeNSes project.