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.

Learn how we're powering progress in cities and their industrial hubs.

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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.

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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.

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Our roadmap to decarbonization

Roadmap to decarbonization for cities and industrial hubs.

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.

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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.

Shell Energy to support Galveston Wharves on sustainability initiatives

The Galveston Wharves is collaborating with Shell Energy and several partners to explore the development of environmentally beneficial shore power at the Port of Galveston.

Shell Energy Stadium

Shell Energy partnered with the Houston Dynamo and Dash, embarking on a shared mission to reduce the Club’s scope 1 and scope 2 emissions by 50% in preparation for the 2026 World Cup.

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