SHELL CITY SOLUTIONS

POWERING PROGRESS WITH CITIES

Germany has the energy to make the transition: Shell, one of the most important energy companies in the market, has declared its full support for the climate protection goals of the Paris Agreement. The company has already begun to make its contribution as a significant player in Germany’s energy transition. Shell has set a group target to become a net-zero emissions company by 2050, in step with society. As part of this commitment, it is focussing on the opportunities for implementing concepts for city solutions.

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A global corporation reinvents itself: Shell on its way to becoming an energy company, meeting the challenges of the future by tackling them today.

Population growth and increasing prosperity are set to send demand for energy soaring in the coming years. Based on rough estimates, the world’s population could rise to more than nine billion people by the middle of the century, with 70 % of them living in cities. One of the key questions is therefore how to design urban space and draw up sustainable urban development plans that respond specifically to the challenges of growing numbers of residents and the associated impact on energy supplies. New energy sources will emerge, while others will struggle to keep pace with developments. An unprecedented collaboration between political decision makers, industry and consumers is needed to build more sustainable cities, tackle the pressure on resources and simultaneously create cleaner ways to supply households and vehicles with electricity. The challenges of individual urban development and learning from expert exchanges in global networks

Studies have shown that, while every city may be unique, there are fundamental needs that are the same in most cities and must be prioritised to meet our goal of building sustainable cities. This is both a local and a global task. One of its most important aspects is devising intelligent urban development plans for supplying the population and the economy with energy and providing mobility.

Shell is responding by restructuring its portfolio and strengthening its focus on commercial and public partnerships in order to promote progress jointly by providing more and cleaner energy and mobility solutions. The company follows a user-centred approach, whereby it

collaborates with urban planners to develop and test innovative concepts, scenarios, technologies and business models in real-world living environments.

As part of these explorations, Shell is supporting the development of a series of innovative solutions, based on commercially viable business models, that will contribute to reaching cities’ carbon dioxide reduction targets. With its many years of global experience in the seamless implementation of energy supplies, Shell can bring its specialist expertise to bear here. It also provides unique access to an extensive network of technology partners, suppliers and contractors.

Many sustainable solutions are already available

When it comes to energy for life and work, green electricity is not the only option for private, local authority, commercial and industrial energy users – biogas is also an alternative. Shell is striving for strong growth in the electricity sector in particular. Its approach to the expansion of its business in this field is holistic, starting with wind turbines and solar panels to actively promote the expansion of renewable energy supplies and ranging all the way through to offers designed to make switching easier for customers.

The Shell Group is looking beyond conventional paths, such as its planned entry into the production of offshore wind energy and green tariffs for customers, and is also following decentralised strategies. For instance, its portfolio includes sonnen, a supplier of energy storage solutions for household solar power systems. Marketed as sonnenBatterie, they enable customers to share the solar electricity that they generate via the sonnenCommunity network. Networking decentralised renewable electricity production is also the strategy followed by Shell’s subsidiary Next Kraftwerke, which operates one of the biggest virtual power plants in Europe, intelligently connecting electricity producers, consumers and storage facilities.

Shell is naturally also in the fast lane when it comes to mobility – with solutions ranging from fast charging at Shell service stations to innovative charging points for use at home, work or public places via retrofitted street lamps. In urban areas in particular, electromobility is set to assume a key role in mobility concepts. Shell is supporting this development with solutions that shorten charging times and provide more charging options, with the aim being to simplify the switch to battery-electric vehicles and thereby promote the transition to electromobility.

Electricity and hydrogen – the energy for urban mobility

Shell already offers access to thousands of charging points via Shell Recharge Solutions. Its target is to operate over 500,000 charging points worldwide by 2025. For business customers, there are also integrated Shell offers for charging points to assist with the electrification of light vehicles, such as passenger cars and vans. With this range of services, Shell offers reliable charging stations for company locations of any kind. Compatible with all electric vehicles and easily expandable, the stations are linked to a series of intelligent charging solutions – from company-wide station management to opportunities to increase cost-efficiency and automated invoicing. The services also include a mobile app and a charging map, which provide access to more than 250,000 charging points in over 35 countries – the biggest charging network in Europe.

What’s more, Shell’s subsidiary ubitricity has developed a solution that converts street lamps into charging points for battery-electric vehicles (BEV). Retrofitting a lamp post is three to four times cheaper than installing a new charging point. The company is working with local authorities in Europe to integrate BEV charging facilities into the existing street infrastructure, such as lamp posts and bollards – as will be rolled out in Berlin from this year. This solution is affordable and simple – for anyone who wants to charge their vehicle while it is parked on the street. With these initiatives, Shell is promoting the expansion of the rapidly growing on-street charging market for electric vehicles and broadening its core competencies in order to scale its overall charging offer. This already includes more than 8,000 public charging points worldwide at Shell petrol stations, on streets and at various public locations like supermarkets and parks.

Hydrogen offerings are poised to assume an equally important role in the long term. Shell therefore wants to play its part in making hydrogen a feasible option for commercial road traffic. The Next Mobility Accelerator consortium, formed of Shell, Paul Nutzfahrzeuge and MaierKorduletsch, has already developed one of the industry’s first medium-duty fuel cell trucks (14-18 t; 24 t including trailer). In another consortium – H2Accelerate (H2A) – Shell and its partners Daimler Truck AG, IVECO, OMV, Volvo Group, TotalEnergies and Linde are seeking to develop a pan-European hydrogen infrastructure for heavy-duty transportation with the aim of helping hydrogen achieve an international breakthrough. Shell is also working closely with H2 MOBILITY Deutschland to accelerate the expansion of the hydrogen refuelling infrastructure.

From energy-intensive industries to climate-neutral businesses – Shell is also making the shift

At the same time, Shell is implementing its own sustainability strategies. One of their key elements is the transformation of Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland. The complex in Wesseling is to end crude refining from 2025. Petroleum is to be replaced as a raw material by installing new plant or adapting existing technologies. To expand its portfolio of low- or zero-carbon products, Shell’s use of hydrogen, circular waste materials and biogenic feedstocks will increase.

Together, all these activities will enable Shell to implement its Powering Progress strategy for accelerating the transition of its business to net-zero emissions. They pave the way for long-term collaborations in new fields and for Shell to take a lead in promoting efficient solutions that benefit society.

Learn more about Shell’s Powering Progress strategy in Hall 1.2, Stand: C002 D011.

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