Nigeria: Shell to Spend U.S.$1 Billion Yearly On Clean Energy By 2020

Lagos — Oil giant, Shell said it plans to spend as much as $1 billion a year on its New Energies division as the transition toward renewable power and electric cars accelerates.

"In some parts of the world we are beginning to see battery electric cars starting to gain consumer acceptance" while wind and solar costs are falling fast," Shell CEO Ben Van Beurden said in a speech.

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