Shell to pick a renewable energy source, not yet

Royal Dutch Shell will pick a renewable energy source for commercial production but it is much too early to tell which one, its Chief Executive said on Friday. “We don’t know which form of energy will win, and we don’t know how quickly we will know,” Jeroen van der Veer said at a meeting of Dutch business leaders.

The alternative energy source that Shell selects will need to build on the company’s strength in processing fossil fuels and implementing major projects in hostile environments, such as oil and gas exploration fields and refineries.

Reuters