Renewables

Shell photovoltaic panels are being used in a US$ 25 million joint Chinese-Dutch development project to provide electricity to some 78,000 homes in rural areas in Xinjiang currently without electricity. The project is sponsored by the Dutch Government under the China Brightness Programme, organised by the State Development and Reform Commission, which allows households to purchase systems via micro-credit mechanisms from approved financial institutions. The project has sold more than 26,000 systems since 2002.

Shell Solar installed centralised photovoltaic systems to provide electricity to 26 remote villages in the Yunnan and Xinjiang China during 2004, under a contract valued at about €2.7 million. The total installed power was 200kWp for the villages, nine of which are in Xinjiang and the rest in Yunnan. These villages have a total of about 1,300 households, which currently have no access to electricity. In addition, In addition, Shell Solar signed a contract in March 2005 to provide similar centralised systems to 12 remote villages in Qinghai Province, under a contract valued at about  €1.28 million. It involves 551 households with no previous access to electricity.

Shell announced plans in early 2006 to divest its crystalline silicon-based photovoltaic solar business to concentrate on next generation non-silicon solar cells that it believes are more likely to become competitive with retail electricity.

Shell has signed a Memorandum of Understanding outlining plans to explore the potential for wind energy developments in China in partnership with Guohua Energy Investment Corporation of the China Shenhua Group, a leading national energy supplier.

Shell is cooperating with Tongji University to build Shanghai’s first hydrogen filling station for fuel cell vehicles. The partners are building the new station at Shanghai International Automotive City, working together on the design, construction, maintenance and operations.

The station, which will be completed by the end of 2006, is part of the Ministry of Science and Technology’s national programme to develop electric vehicles in China.

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