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Clean energy sector in Wales forecast to create 15,000 new jobs over the next five years

To support the sector's required recruitment drive the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ Government is backing a skills pilot in Pembrokeshire

Clean energy.(Image: Local Democracy Reporting Service)

The clean energy sector in Wales is forecast to require 15,000 more jobs over the next five years claims the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ Government. It comes as it has published a plan to support the required recruitment drive.

The Westminster government has identified 31 priority occupations for the sector - which includes hydrogen, renewables and nuclear - with plumbers, electricians, and welders particularly in demand.

Across the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ clean energy employment is expected to double to 860,000 by 2030.

The Hynet CCUS (carbon capture, usage and storage) project will support jobs in North Wales, Cheshire and Flintshire, and is projected to create 2,800 direct jobs. The Mona Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of North Wales is also set to provide 3,500 jobs over its lifetime.

Key skills needed include trades such as electricians, bricklayers and plumbers as well as engineers and metal workers, with the largest clean energy employer expected to be in carbon capture as well as offshore wind.

Five new technical excellence colleges will help train young people into essential roles. As skills are devolved this will not seen one based in Wales. However, sills pilots in Pembrokeshire, alongside those in Cheshire and Lincolnshire, will be backed with £2.5m - which could go towards courses or career advisers.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said: “Wales is essential to the clean energy revolution that this government is delivering. Communities across Wales have long been calling out for a new generation of good industrial jobs. The clean energy jobs boom can answer that call - and today we publish a landmark national plan to make it happen.

“Our plans will help create an economy in which there is no need to leave your hometown just to find a decent job. Thanks to this government’s commitment to clean energy a generation of young people in our industrial heartlands can have well-paid secure jobs, from plumbers to electricians and welders. “