Solar-powered and clean energy jobs on the rise in Australia
1 August 2013
Australia is seeing an increase in clean energy industry jobs with 24,000 people now employed – two-and-a-half times the figure of five years ago – and a further 450 construction jobs due to be created at the start of 2014 in building an enormous solar power facility.
Thu, 1 Aug 2013
Australia is seeing an increase in clean energy industry jobs with 24,000 people now employed – two-and-a-half times the figure of five years ago – and a further 450 construction jobs due to be created at the start of 2014 in building an enormous solar power facility.
Construction is confirmed as starting in January for what Australia’s minister for climate change Mark Butler says will be the largest solar power station in the Southern hemisphere, spread across two sites in central New South Wales.
The project is also 15 times larger than any other solar station in Australia, and will provide an additional 50,000 home with clean energy. Local and federal government are providing grants totalling just under $275m (£162m) towards the project itself and furthering solar power research at two universities.
Butler says: “There are now around 24,000 people employed in the clean energy jobs of the future, more than double the estimated 10,000 employed five years ago.”
In the same period, wind power capacity has trebled, and the Australian government has set targets for the use of traditional and renewable energy sources.
Australia is seeing an increase in clean energy industry jobs with 24,000 people now employed – two-and-a-half times the figure of five years ago – and a further 450 construction jobs due to be created at the start of 2014 in building an enormous solar power facility.
Construction is confirmed as starting in January for what Australia’s minister for climate change Mark Butler says will be the largest solar power station in the Southern hemisphere, spread across two sites in central New South Wales.
The project is also 15 times larger than any other solar station in Australia, and will provide an additional 50,000 home with clean energy. Local and federal government are providing grants totalling just under $275m (£162m) towards the project itself and furthering solar power research at two universities.
Butler says: “There are now around 24,000 people employed in the clean energy jobs of the future, more than double the estimated 10,000 employed five years ago.”
In the same period, wind power capacity has trebled, and the Australian government has set targets for the use of traditional and renewable energy sources.
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