San Diego Microgrids
Shell Energy worked with the City of San Diego and partner, Gridscape Solutions, to deliver cleaner, more reliable power by helping create its own power grid for city buildings.
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Decarbonizing Cities & Industry
As the world's population grows, so does the demand for energy solutions. It's important to build more sustainable cities and industrial hubs to tackle pressures on resources and enable collaboration with policymakers, industry leaders, and consumers.
Accelerate your decarbonization journey.
We offer solutions tailored to meet unique commercial and retail needs – from big-box stores to small outlets – we can help reduce energy costs and increase profitability. Shell Energy is powering progress across all three emissions scopes in the energy-intensive commercial retail industry to help you meet your decarbonization commitments.
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A closeup of wildflowers on a hill. Aerial view of a lush, green valley. A shot looking straight up toward the sky in a forest. Goats walking in a field.
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Climate change is among the most significant challenges we face today - and it’s accelerating.
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The way in which humans have produced and consumed energy is unsustainable, and we must work urgently towards a future that’s powered by more and cleaner energy.
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Elizabeth Endler
Principal Technology Advisor & Senior Principal Scientist
Electric Power Technology
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People today have never been more connected. Lives and livelihoods, economies and communities depend on convenient, reliable and affordable power to prosper and grow.
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The combination of more and cleaner energy is central to what we do today, and will do tomorrow. It's not a question of one or the other. We want to provide both. Our knowhow, technology, and innovations are helping to deliver
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more, cleaner energy.
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Shell is built over 125 years of technological innovation - and today, technology helps us to play a part in addressing climate change. Technology is vital as Shell works to turn the challenges of today into opportunities of tomorrow.
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Dhruv Arora
Team Lead
Power Storage & Micro Grids
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I like to say that sun never sets in Shell’s R&D space.
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We have over 5,000 employees at technology centers around the globe. Located in Hamburg, Shanghai, Tokyo, Bangalore and Houston, teams are working hard to solve the world’s biggest energy challenges, including those in the power value chain. Each center is a powerhouse of progress, serving regions in a way that allows us to create and test focused, localized trials and solutions.
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Cynthia Ginestra
Manager
Sustainable Products Market Development
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In addition to intense focus on research and development, collaboration is essential for large-scale transformation.
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Our innovation excellence teams play an active role in discovering important
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and potentially groundbreaking technologies, both within and outside of Shell.
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RESEARCH & ACADEMICS
US National Renewable Energy Lab
Florida State University
Stanford
University of Houston
Texas A&M Prairie View
Louisiana State University
University of Texas
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Re-envisioning power generation and distribution is changing the everyday lives
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Stacy Eller
General Manager
Solutions Development, New Energies
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of people around the world. It's fulfilling to be a part of this process, making way for unprecedented access to renewable power in homes and vehicles.
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We hope these changes will soon be as easy as the flip of a switch.
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Together with Shell, startups, scale-ups, research institutes, academia, and mature companies,
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have the opportunity to collaborate and innovate, developing energy solutions for today and tomorrow.
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At Shell Energy, we are eager to share our knowledge and expertise
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to help you navigate the complexities of the energy transition.
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We invite you to join us
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re-imagining the future of power,
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and the power of the future. By leading through innovation in the power value chain, we are committed to making that vision a reality.
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Learn how we're powering progress in cities and their industrial hubs.
Building sustainable cities
Cities are unique, yet they share common needs, such as water, energy, and shelter. With these necessities at the forefront of our planning, we support pioneering research initiatives that help drive sustainable innovation and understand what future cities will need.
Decarbonizing industrial hubs
We are leveraging value chains to build integrated energy hubs that decarbonize industrial regions which supply cities with energy, mobility, and infrastructure resources.
Our roadmap to decarbonization
Building a sustainable roadmap
When collaborating with cities and their stakeholders, we take a holistic view of their unique needs across the short-, medium- and long-term. By bringing together our full range of products and solutions, Shell Energy develops bespoke decarbonization roadmaps with city leaders through collaborative workshops that identify pathways toward a lower carbon future.
Integrated solutions across the value chain
Building a decarbonization roadmap requires not one but many solutions across the energy value chain. With our breadth of expertise – from feasibility and assessment studies, utility engagement, solution design and installation, and energy management, Shell Energy is uniquely positioned to help guide cities and industrial hubs through decarbonization journeys.
