Responding to the Government’s Clean Energy Jobs Plan, published today, Energy UK’s chief executive, Dhara Vyas, said:
“Today’s announcement is a critical step forward in building the workforce required to deliver our future energy system. It rightly recognises the need to tackle the skills challenge collectively by investing in both new talent and our existing workforce.
“With up to 400,000 new jobs on the horizon and a clear focus on high-quality, inclusive opportunities, the Clean Energy Job Plan spotlights a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a cleaner, fairer energy system whose benefits will be felt by people and communities across the country.
“However Government needs to provide greater long-term policy certainty across all areas of the energy sector in order to realise this opportunity to scale up the workforce. Businesses need a clear, continuous, and consistent pipeline of low-carbon projects so they can invest in training, create jobs, and grow the clean energy workforce with confidence. The skills funding landscape remains heavily fragmented, and a more streamlined and simplified set of structures could also help improve the impact of skills investment.“