Shell Scenarios energy models
The Scenarios team has developed two important long-term models of the world’s energy system. These help test, quantify and explore the ranges for future scenario stories. When viewed together, they offer a perspective on the current global energy landscape, as well as the ability to model a number of futures.
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World Energy Model
Find out how the World Energy Model can explore different plausible future energy scenarios all the way to the year 2100.
Global Supply Model
Find out how the Scenarios team explores future oil and gas production potential to 2100.
Global Energy Resources database
Our tool for exploring how the world’s fossil and renewable energy resources are distributed – now and in future.
Featured Content
Shell Scenarios in film
A selection of short films introduce and explain the Shell Scenarios over the years, and the work of our Scenarios team.
Meet the Shell Scenarios team
The Shell Scenarios team brings together experts from an array of disciplines to understand versions of the future.
Earlier scenarios
Shell Scenarios since the 1970s have helped us understand how the world and its energy system could evolve in decades to come.