Shell is an integrated energy company that aims to meet the world’s growing demand for energy in ways that are economically, environmentally and socially responsible. Shell employs around 90,000 people in over 70 countries and had an R&D investment of ~$1.1 billion in 2018. Shell is the current chair of the German Clean Energy Partnership and one of the main shareholders in the German H2 Mobility organization, planning to build 200 hydrogen stations until 2023. This will be followed by the roll-out of hydrogen infrastructure in other European countries, of which the announcement to build 3 stations near London with ITM as partner is an example. Shell seeks reliable, low-cost, efficient and low-carbon hydrogen supply to these stations. The Hydrogen team in Shell works on the near term hydrogen for mobility aspects as well as the longer term hydrogen as an energy vector and storage aspects.

For Shell the project will be led by Shell Global Solutions International B.V. with the goal of leading the initial use cases building and defining the required interfaces of the SWITCH prototype with the Test facility at STCA.