The Clean Energy Council welcomes the opportunity to make a submission in response to the Request for Information process on Victoria’s Wind Worker and Renewable Hydrogen Worker Training Centres.
The Clean Energy Council welcomes investment in training and education for clean energy skills. There is growing demand for clean energy workers in a context of existing skill shortages. The geographically distributed nature of renewable generation assets creates challenges for locating new training and education facilities due to thin markets. Investment in new facilities should seek to collaborate and complement existing capabilities.
This submission briefly reviews the operating contexts of the wind and renewable hydrogen industries as relevant to the timing and size of their respective workforce needs. It recommends paths of least regret to minimise the possible impacts of any uncertainties facing industry.
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