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Distributed Energy

We provide customised and comprehensive solutions to help you achieve the energy goals of your organisation. We connect and integrate Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) to provide cleaner, cost effective and more resilient energy for large-scale businesses and communities. These tailored solutions offer a simplified ‘one-stop shop’ approach to upgrading your energy infrastructure and reducing your total annual energy spend and meeting your renewable energy goals.

How distributed energy can help your business

Cost Reduction

We designed the Distributed Energy platform to reduce your total cost of energy by leveraging a combination of solutions and technology. We will help you to identify opportunities to cut down energy costs through smart metering technology, proactive maintenance and replacement of equipment, the deployment of on-site generation and energy storage, and the financing options that best fit your needs. These customised solutions are designed to help lower total cost of operation.

Resiliency

We can help protect your business operations from external events and outages with a range of behind-the-meter solutions platforms, from back-up generation and battery storage, to combined heat & power and solar panels. In eligible markets, we can also help in generating additional sources of revenue, by connecting and controlling flexible load/generation to offer a service to utility or network operators, including investment deferral on costly upgrades.

Efficiency and Sustainability

We can help you meet your energy goals with attractive financing options to upgrade your energy infrastructure to increase efficiency and reliability of the equipment on your premises. Our solutions can be tailored to the key areas of your business, such as lighting, refrigeration, heating ventilation and air conditioning, fans, motors, as well as electric vehicle (EV) charging.

Simplification

Our technical experts can help you simplify procurement, deployment, and operations and maintenance of your energy infrastructure, covering all ends of your energy-demand needs. Our solutions include enterprise-wide reports you can access through your mobile device, remote monitoring, system diagnostics, and asset optimisation.

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Distributed Energy, solutions for a better energy future (Global)

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Title: Distributed Energy, solutions for a better energy future (Global)

Duration: 1:39 minutes

Description:

This video serves as the introduction of Distributed Energy and its offerings.

Distributed Energy Transcript

[Background music plays]

Upbeat, driving music begins and plays throughout.

[Voice Over (VO) Narration]

Middle-aged male voice is used throughout. The tone of the read is confident, friendly and conversational.

[Animated sequence]

The video opens on a text display with a play button centred in the background. A mouse cursor clicks on the play button.

[Text display - Super]

A better energy future

[VO/Captioning]

The energy transition is creating new opportunities and options to power your business in new and more efficient ways.

[Animated sequence]

An arrow wipes across the screen and reveals a new animated vignette. A crop of buildings grows up from a stylized line near the bottom of the screen. The scene then recedes back into the stylized line.

[VO/Captioning]

To help you stay ahead of these changes,

[Animation sequence]

Building out of the stylized line, we see a solar panel array and a sun hanging overhead.

[VO/Captioning]

Shell provides customized and comprehensive solutions

[Animation sequence]

The solar panel scene recedes into the line and is replaced by a scene featuring a crop of wind turbines.

[Text display - Super]

Customized and Comprehensive Solutions

[VO/Captioning]

From energy supply, to demand-side solutions and more.

[Animation sequence]

The wind turbine scene recedes into the line and is replaced by a scene featuring a diagram of the energy supply and demand ecosystem.

[VO/Captioning]

Our Distributed Energy platform provides sustainable, affordable and more resilient energy for large-scale businesses and communities.

[Animation sequence]

The diagram scene recedes into the line and is replaced by a super introducing “Distributed Energy.” That super then shifts up and is accompanied by icons tied to offering supers: “Sustainability, Affordability, Resilient.”

[Text display - Super]

Distributed Energy

-Sustainability

-Affordability

-Resilient

[VO/Captioning]

Reduce costs – by identifying opportunities to cut energy cost

[Animation sequence]

The everything but the affordability icon recedes into the line and is replaced by a scene featuring a new super, accompanied by a sun and clouds.

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Reduce Costs

[VO/Captioning]

And deploy custom solutions that use smart metering technology, proactive maintenance and replacement of equipment, on-site generation and storage and more.

[Animation sequence]

The icon recedes into the line and is replaced by a scene featuring a street of small storefronts. Standing behind, and overlooking, the scene are a Shell rep and a businessman having a conversation. Beside them, a computer and smartphone icon build in. That icon is then replaced by another icon of a brain inside of the outline of a head, to illustrate the intelligence of the solution.

[Text display - Super]

Proactive maintenance

[VO/Captioning]

Boost resiliency – by protecting business operations from external events and outages on-site and, where available, generating additional sources of revenue by partnering with utility or network operators

[Animation sequence]

The storefront scene recedes into the line and is replaced by a scene featuring on-site industrial power hardware. In the center are a Shell rep and customer, clothed in PPE, having a conversation and reacting to supers building in above them.

[Text display - Super]

-Resiliency

-Additional Revenue Sources

[VO/Captioning]

Achieve efficiency and sustainability –

[Animation sequence]

The industrial power scene recedes into the line and is replaced by a scene featuring a new sales rep and customer who are standing beneath a super.

[Text display - Super]

Efficiency + Sustainability

[VO/Captioning]

By upgrading your energy infrastructure through solutions specifically designed to meet your energy goals and supported by financing that works for you.

[Animation sequence]

The super recedes into the line and is replaced by a warehouse scene featuring the same sales rep and customer continuing a conversation. A super and air conditioning icon build in above them. That icon is then replaced by a lightbulb/power icon, as the scene scrolls through the warehouse, showcasing lighting, AC ducting and electric power stations.

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-Upgrade Energy Infrastructure

-Supported By Financing

[VO/Captioning]

These tailored solutions offer a streamlined approach

[Animation sequence]

Everything but the customer character recedes into the line. I circle of icons representing Distributed Energy offerings rotate around the customer as they look on.

[VO/Captioning]

To upgrading your energy infrastructure, while reducing your total annual energy spend and meeting your renewable energy goals, allowing you to make the most of your business,

[Animation sequence]

Those icons recede into the line and are replaced by a single “gears” icon accompanying a super, which builds in above the customer, along with a stylized sun. That super and icon are swapped with a “money saving” icon and super. Those are then replaced by a “checkmark” icon and the goals-oriented super.

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-Upgrade Energy Infrastructure

-Reduce Energy Spend

-Meet Energy Goals

[VO/Captioning]

Better serve your customers and help usher in a more responsible energy future.

[Animation sequence]

The previous scene recedes into the line and is replaced by the same energy supply/demand ecosystem graphic from earlier in the video.

[VO/Captioning]

Distributed Energy is your energy transition partner.

[Animation sequence]

The ecosystem graphic recedes into the line and is replaced by a scene featuring elements from many of the previous scenes living together, side-by-side, as a super builds in above them.

[Text display - Super]

Distributed Energy

 [Animated sequence]

We then transition to a scene featuring an animated Shell Energy logo build to end the video.

[Text display]

-Shell Energy (logo)

-shell.com/distributedenergy

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