Most recently, Shellagreedto buy Europes biggest biogas producer, Denmark-basedNature Energy, for 1.9 billion.

This comes one month after rival BPannouncedits $4.1-billion plan to buy Archaea Energy, a US-listed biogas producer.

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Shell’s investment in renewables is wonderfully worrisome

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But whether this renewable energy-generated money will indeed go towardsrenewable energydevelopment is debatable.

After all, oil is still far more profitable than renewables.

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Two weeks ago, the so-called Hywind Tampen started power production from its first wind turbine.

Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou

Ioanna is a writer at TNW.

With a background in the humanities, she has a soft spot for social impact-enabling technologies.

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