Renewable energy industry associations and representatives of clean technology installers set up a large-scale skills partnership for the renewable energy industry ecosystem with the European Commission on Tuesday 21 March, they announced in a statement.
This is the 15th European Pact for Skills.
The aim will be to “equip workers with the skills needed to manufacture and manage renewable energy technologies in order to achieve the EU’s energy and climate targets for 2030 and climate neutrality by 2050”.
The pact will promote “the creation of quality jobs and career paths in Europe, propose policy recommendations to advance skills development, involve relevant national authorities, educational institutions, in particular vocational education and training institutions, and training platforms, and attract more women to clean energy jobs”. Overall, about 1.3 million people were employed in the EU renewable energy sector in 2020.
Achieving the REPowerEU targets will require the creation of over 3.5 million jobs by 2030. In the solar photovoltaic sector, the estimated need is for one million workers by 2030, with up to 66,000 jobs needed in the manufacturing sector alone.
Link to the Pact: https://aeur.eu/f/5xe (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)