Last month’s Scottish Low Carbon Investment Conference reinforced the claims of the renewable energy industry and government sectors, that Scotland are the innovators and potential leaders in the race to become a renewable energy super power.
Speaker after speaker made the point that we have the potential, and asked whether we were doing enough to keep ahead?
The Scottish Government is being bold and committing finance and resources to ensure the green sector leads the competition. We have the natural resources and personnel to make this happen, but we need more support and commitment as well as finance.
The industry needs investment in education, awareness building and incentive schemes to ensure that we are attracting the right skills and that the supply of these skills can be sustained. Though the transferable skills market is an important short-term resource to fill the skills gap, the future lies in education and training schemes for school leavers.
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Author: Tom Hopkinson
