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The European wind industry has been urged to address a severe skills shortage, after research showed a lack of qualified workers for the industry could reach 18,000 a year by 2030.
The industry faces a shortage of around 5,500 qualified staff a year, according to an upcoming report by the EU’s Wind Energy Technology Platform (TPWind), which is based on research by renewable energy consultancy GL Garrard Hassan.
Andrew Garrad chairman of GL Garrad Hassan said: “There is a real risk of a shortage of suitably skilled workers. Well over half of the shortfall in new workers in 2030 could be in operations and maintenance. Engineers are in desperately short supply and the problem will get far worse unless action is taken.”
To meet its staff needs TPWind recommended the industry create more wind energy training courses and increase the graduate intake on those courses.
It also called for greater emphasis on science, technology, engineering and maths skills in vocational schemes and training in operations and maintenance.
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