Resources

Check out our Servitisation Resources Hub comprising of case studies, tools, webinars, reports and more, developed by the different initiatives under the SET Alliance. As a member of the SET Alliance you will gain access to additional support and exclusive materials.

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Delivering Efficient Compressed Air-as-a-Service for food processing

Tapping into the power of salt to deliver renewable heating and cooling as-a-service from waste heat

Irrigation-as-a-Service for smallholder farmers in India

Solar-as-a-service microgrids for public and private healthcare facilities in rural Malawi

Showcasing Cooling-As-a-Service in Malaysia’s new Financial District With KAER

Kaer brings a unique Cooling-as-a-Service solution to a groundbreaking 17-acre lifestyle destination, efficiently refreshing multiple parts of the complex, including a shopping mall, offices and a hotel.

Efficient, Clean and Quiet Refrigeration from Energy Partners: Cooling-as-a-Service for Food Processing

Energy Partners Refrigeration is retrofitting the refrigeration system of Sovereign Foods’ facility in Hartbeespoort. The project focuses on a new ammonia system that will deliver a cooling capacity of 5.4 MW to the processing plant.

Asian Cooling-as-a-Service Toolkit

The Asian CaaS toolkit provides practical guidance on how to structure and evaluate CaaS projects, created in collaboration with industry partner Kaer, a pioneer of CaaS active across Southeast Asia and India.

The toolkit’s technical and legal content is designed to support CaaS project development in commercial and industrial sectors. The contract comes with a checklist that considers adaptation to specific national laws.

With this toolkit, the SET Alliance provides a set of documents to support the market adoption of Cooling-as-a-Service.

Download the toolkit ↓

Standardised Contracts

What do service contracts look like? Under the Cooling-as-a-Service (CaaS) and Efficiency-as-a-Service (EaaS) projects, several standardised service contracts were developed. These serve as a starting point for as-a-Service solutions, and can help you to understand the different clauses, and the creation of off-balance contracts.

CaaS Contract (Global) ↓

EAAS contract (Belgium, sPAIN, NETHERLANDS) ↓

Pricing Tools

How do you price service solutions? Under the Cooling-as-a-Service (CaaS), Efficiency-as-a-Service (EaaS) projects, pricing tools were created to better enable service providers to define their pricing model, and to communicate financing elements to customers and financiers.

Eaas Pricing tool (multiple technologies) ↓

CaaS Pricing model (HVAC) ↓

Risk Assessment Tool

What risks are involved in servitisation? Under the Efficiency-as-a-Service (EaaS) project, a risk assessment tool was developed outlining the different risks for consideration by providers, customers and financiers.

EAAS rISK MItIGATION TOOL ↓

Questionnaires

How do you talk to different stakeholders? During the Cooling-as-a-Service (CaaS) project, questions were developed for providers to discuss service offerings and projects with potential and existing customers, as well as financiers.

Caas relevant questions (Customers) ↓

Caas relevant questions (Financiers) ↓

YourVCCA tools and materials (cold rooms)

Operators Training Manual ↓

Presentation - transforming agricultural through CaaS ↓

Editable farmer training brochure (English) ↓

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The Power of PaaS Contracts: Unlocking Sustainable and Circular Business Practices

This webinar explored the role of contracts in unlocking the full potential of Product-as-a-Service (PaaS), circularity and sustainability. Contracts play a crucial role in enabling and scaling PaaS models as they define ownership, risk allocation, value creation, and circularity incentives.

The Path to Efficiency-as-a-Service: A Guide to Creating Customer Value

In this webinar, industry experts explore the critical steps one company must take to adopt and thrive with service-based offerings. This event aims to demystify XaaS models, discussing their value proposition, the building blocks necessary to create value, and the challenges and benefits faced by solution providers.

The value of digitalisation in Product-as-a-Service (PaaS) Unlocking value through digitalisation

This webinar focused on the value of digitalisation in Product-as-a-Service models, and how it can scale efficiency and enhance revenues. Our expert speakers explored how digitalisation can unlock the feasibility of the model, recounted their journey into implementing servitisation offerings, the challenges faced and solutions selected to overcome them.

Product-as-a-Service: a Model to Enhance Circularity of Building Systems

This webinar explores how circularity principles can be integrated into Product-as-a-Service (PaaS) models and contracts, examining the key characteristics, challenges, and opportunities of incorporating circular practices into PaaS offerings, particularly in the building services sector. Industry experts discuss customer and financier perspectives on circularity and the reduction of environmental impacts within PaaS frameworks.

Unlocking Finance for Cold Rooms and Cooling as Service: Insights from the Field and Financiers

The second webinar of the ‘Unlocking finance and scalability for cold rooms as a service’ series, provides insights from experts on the criteria and challenges cooling companies face in securing funding. Discussions cover information gaps, investor expectations, the role of digital technology, and practical solutions to unlock financing for scaling agricultural cold storage.

Cold Storage Financing in Agriculture: Where are we now and where do we want to go?

The first webinar of this series provides a comprehensive overview of the multi-dimensional impacts, barriers, business models, instruments and tools relevant for scaling agricultural cold storage. The session specifically explores the financial landscape for ‘Cooling-as-a-Service’ (CaaS) cold rooms.

Your Virtual Cold Chain Assistant – Incubator Tour

During autumn 2022, the Your Virtual Cold Chain Assistant project, part of the SET Alliance, launched an initiative to offer technical assistance to 5 cooling companies to adopt a Cooling-as-a-Service model for their solutions and the Coldtivate app. Here’s the presentation of this incubator.

Unlocking value through digitalisation

Digital innovations are proving crucial in unlocking the feasibility and enhancing the benefits of the servitisation business models, especially when applied to decarbonisation solutions. Hear experts developing or leveraging emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, and advanced software, and discussing how they facilitate the transition to cleaner energy systems.

Accelerating decarbonisation: as-a-service solutions

Learn about how as-a-service solutions can drive decarbonisation efforts with examples from the cooling industry, and finance perspectives on energy investing in efficiency projects.

Roadmap Towards Sustainable and Energy Efficient Buildings in Southeast Asia – ASEAN Workshop

Dimitris Karamitsos represented the CaaS initiative and together with other panelists, exchanged perspectives on how business model innovations are a strong catalyst for the deployment of more energy efficient, sustainable and clean cooling in the region.

Cooling as a Service (CaaS), a solution for airports in the LAC region to access efficient and sustainable cooling

This webinar helps understand how the innovative pay-per-use business model “Cooling as a Service” can revolutionise how cooling is deployed within airports.

Cooling-as-a-Service in agricultural supply chains

The webinar explores how perishable supply chains can become more efficient and how field cooling is key to maximise food quality, as well as barriers to investing in the right cooling solutions?

How Cooling-as-a-Service is Set to Revolutionise the Cooling Industry

This webinar organised by BASE, IEA and SEAD, helps to understand how the innovative pay-per-use business model “Cooling as a Service” is set to revolutionise the cooling industry by overcoming the key market barriers for the commercial and industrial sectors.

How Cooling-as-a-Service can accelerate the transition to net zero carbon buildings

This webinar helps to understand how the innovative pay-per-use business model “Cooling-as-a-Service” can significantly accelerate a transition to net zero carbon buildings by overcoming the key market barriers slowing down investments in more efficient systems.