Electrification may not be the answer to decarbonisation, says Shell
‘Even if we discover how to supply two-thirds of world’s energy demands with clean electricity, it won’t cut out all emissions’
10 June 2020 - 12:40
London — The world may be leaning too heavily on electrification as a means to decarbonise its energy mix, according to the head of Royal Dutch Shell.
“A lot of people think that with green electricity everything can be solved. It can’t,” Shell CEO Ben van Beurden said in an interview with Bloomberg Green...
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