Towards sustainability of energy systems: A primer on how to apply the concept of energy services to identify necessary trends and policies

By R. Haas, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Amela Ajanovic, Thomas Faber, L. Kranzl, A. Müller, G. Resch. 2008

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The slow search for solutions: lessons from historical energy transitions by sector and service (2010, background): “Haas et al (2008) discuss the central role behaviour and the demand for energy services will play in driving any low carbon transition, the ambiguous effects of efficiency improvements on energy consumption and, thus, the need to understand services better.”
The Material Stock–Flow–Service Nexus: A New Approach for Tackling the Decoupling Conundrum (2017, background): “Energy services are derived in several steps involving energy conversions from raw or primary energy extracted from deposits or diverted from natural flows to final energy sold to consumers, to useful energy delivered by machinery operated by consumers and eventually to energy services, a sequence t”
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights (2020, background): “…summarize the findings on the extent of decoupling between GDP and final energy as well as exergy (section 3.2), i.e. indicators that are much more closely linked to the actual functions, utility and services of energy for socioeconomic activities (Lovins 1979, Haas et al 2008, Kalt et al 2019).”