I haven’t thought much about it, but it seems reasonably likely that your straightforward line of thinking is correct.
In particular, things like:
Improvements by sonnen which could threaten Shell’s bottom line would be much less likely to happen, but might be the most valuable
sonnen might not aim for large-scale expansion
as you say, it might be used to greenwash Shell
I haven’t thought much about it, but it seems reasonably likely that your straightforward line of thinking is correct.
In particular, things like:
Improvements by sonnen which could threaten Shell’s bottom line would be much less likely to happen, but might be the most valuable
sonnen might not aim for large-scale expansion
as you say, it might be used to greenwash Shell