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"To get Australia’s grid 82% powered by renewables by 2030 is a huge increase.
At present, the electricity powering eastern and southern states is around 33%
renewable.
To get there means a lot of work. Over the next seven years, it would be
equivalent to installing dozens of large wind turbines every month, and tens of
thousands of solar panels every day.
And work needs workers. To make this happen, our modelling shows 15,000 more
workers are needed by 2025 – less than three years away. That’s amid a skills
shortage, an infrastructure boom and unemployment rates at the lowest level in
decades.
So how to do it? We need to train more skilled workers and give them more
security. Renewable projects have tended to operate on boom-bust cycles when it
comes to jobs. But to get where we need to be, we need to shift to a long-term
boom mentality. We’re going to need people doing these jobs for decades to
come."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
