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Shell opens its first EV charging station in Indonesia
The oil supermajor plans to octuple its global EV charging station fleet from 60,000 in February to around 500,000 by 2025 in realizing a net zero emissions plan by 2050, according to a Feb. 11 statement.
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oyal Dutch Shell has opened an electric vehicle (EV) charging station in Jakarta, the oil supermajor’s first in Indonesia, to test the waters of the local EV market.
The launch makes Shell the third oil and gas company to open a commercial EV charging station in Indonesia, after state-owned Pertamina in December 2018 and PT Medco Energi Internasional in February 2021. The latter two companies are Indonesian.
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Shell wrote in a statement on March 31 that the singular fast charging station at its gas station in North Jakarta, with a 50-kilowatt (kW) capacity, could fully charge a car in less than an hour.
Stations with a capacity below 22 kW take hours to charge and are categorized as slow charging stations under International Energy Agency (IEA) standards.
“This is proof of our commitment to always support the [Indonesian] government’s agenda of providing clean and renewable energy,” wrote Shell Indonesia in the statement.
Indonesia has been pushing companies to invest in the domestic EV ecosystem to cut oil imports and spur industrialization. The country needs 31,857 new charging stations by 2030 to serve 326,350 EVs on the road by that year, estimates state-owned electricity monopoly PLN.
Read also: Indonesia needs 31,000 charging stations to reach electric vehicle goals
At the same time, Shell plans to octuple its global EV charging station fleet from 60,000 in February to around 500,000 by 2025 in realizing a net zero emissions plan by 2050, according to a Feb. 11 statement.
The statement noted that Shell operated 46,000 gas stations globally. Shell Indonesia wrote in a separate Jan. 7 statement that it operated 137 gas stations locally as of 2020, up 27 percent from the previous year.
“[Shell’s net zero] plan bears one key difference from the transition plan of its big rival BP, published six months earlier, in that it spares Shell's production of fossil fuels by not setting targets for upstream production cuts,” wrote Cristina Brooks, a senior journalist at market consultancy IHS Markit.
Oil remains Shell’s biggest business, contributing 71.3 percent of the company’s total US$180.5 billion revenue last year, the company’s annual financial report shows. Its gas and renewable energy business, which includes EV charging stations, contributed 18.4 percent. The company booked a whopping $21.7 billion net loss in 2020.
Shell contributed 1.7 percent of the world’s total industrial greenhouse gas emissions between 1988 and 2015, one of the highest contributions among 100 fossil fuel companies studied in a landmark 2017 report. Pertamina also made the list.
