Shell Ditches British Solar Farms In Net Zero Retreat
The oil giant has also watered down its 2030 carbon-reduction target and dropped its 2035 low-carbon goal.
by Melissa Lawford August 04, 2026, 2:55 PM
Shell is selling its British solar farm business to a French rival as it beats a retreat from net zero. The UK’s biggest oil and gas company confirmed it had signed a deal to sell its European onshore renewables arm to France’s TotalEnergies. [some emphasis, links added]
The sale includes solar farms, battery storage and onshore wind projects in the UK, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. The sites have a combined 500 megawatts of generation capacity, enough to power several hundred thousand homes.
It includes the newly built solar plant in Iddenshall, Cheshire, which will supply the UK’s largest public electric-vehicle charging network.
At one stage, Shell had been developing four UK solar farms with planned capacity of 100 megawatts.
The value of the deal has not been disclosed.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/shell-net-zero-retreat-energy/
