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<\/div>\nThe first meeting of the UK\u2019s Green Jobs Delivery Group took place yesterday (11 May), co-chaired by energy minister Greg Hands and E.ON CEO Michael Lewis.<\/strong><\/p>\n The group, comprised of representatives from business, industry, trade unions and academia, has been tasked with supporting the delivery of up to 480,000 skilled green jobs by 2030, a target laid down in the British energy strategy<\/a> announced last month and Net Zero Strategy<\/a> in October 2021.<\/p>\n The government claims that it will unlock \u00a3100bn of private investment by 2030, by which point 95% of electricity could be low carbon. This points to a need for far more skilled workers to build and maintain the likes of electric vehicles, heat pumps, hydrogen boilers, wind turbines and solar panels, as well as insulate British homes and buildings.<\/p>\n So far, ministers say 68,000 green jobs have been created or are \u201cin the pipeline\u201d in the UK economy. These are in electric vehicle manufacturing in Sunderland, hydrogen facilities in Teesside, and offshore wind in Northumberland, Yorkshire and Humber.<\/p>\n The Delivery Group will look at ways of ensuring all sectors of the economy and parts of the country can benefit from the green transition.<\/p>\n Hands, said: \u201cWe will need tens of thousands of skilled workers for our clean transition and to boost energy security; and well-paid green jobs will help with the cost of living. Spreading opportunity by levelling up all parts of the country.<\/p>\n \u201cOur new Delivery Group will help us ensure employers have the know-how and employees the skills to drive our transition to becoming the world\u2019s leading green economy.\u201d<\/p>\n Co-chair of the Delivery Group and CEO of E.ON UK, Michael Lewis, said collaboration between business and government was vital if targets were to be achieved: \u201cThe UK needs a future pipeline of talent to power it towards net zero and this Delivery Group will ensure industry and government work together, so we have the diverse, skilled and resilient workforce needed for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n The government\u2019s recent British Energy Security Strategy set out how the UK would accelerate the transition to renewables, supporting an extra 40,000 green jobs including an expansion of nuclear power in the form of \u201csmall modular reactors\u201d, a fivefold increase in offshore wind by 2030 and solar by 2035 with a double of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030.<\/p>\n Among existing initiatives and skills programmes to support low carbon industries across the country ministers are keen to flag up are:<\/p>\n An example of job opportunities created by the energy strategy is provided under plans for a Sizewell C nuclear plant. This would see up to 1,500 apprenticeships becoming available if the reactor gets the go-ahead.<\/p>\n Sarah Williamson, civils programme director at Sizewell C, said: \u201cSizewell C will deliver 1,500 apprenticeships and these early opportunities are a fantastic route into the project for students to learn their craft at Hinkley Point C and transfer back to Sizewell C as qualified welders and engineers.<\/p>\n \u201cThe opportunities are real, they are being delivered now and I would encourage anyone serious in pursuing a rewarding career in civils to consider the growing nuclear sector.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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