Shell Foundation

Overview

Shell Foundation (SF) is a charity registered in England and Wales, founded by Shell in 2000, that creates and scales business solutions that empower underserved populations to earn a living income through access to clean energy products and services.

Shell Foundation seek to deploy resources in three ways to encourage innovation and scale:

1. support early-stage technology and business innovations that enhance income by generating greater value for customers and improving affordability.
2.  work with sector actors – specialist intermediaries to facilitate growth and replication at an industry level, or large corporate partners already serving millions of target customer groups – to maximise the scale and speed of energy access solutions reaching target customers.
3. They use their expertise and experience to present the investment case in energy access solutions, their concessional capital to de-risk opportunities and unlock commercial funding, and their understanding of markets and business to develop and scale new and appropriate financing mechanisms.