Renewable Energy: Employment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate he has made of the number of jobs that will be created by the (a) Awel Y Mor and (b) The Erebus Project will be based in Wales.
Answered by Michael Shanks
The Department has not made an assessment of the number of jobs that will be created by individual offshore wind projects.
However, securing 8.4GW of offshore wind capacity in Contracts for Difference Allocation Round 7 has unlocked £22 billion in private investment and supports 7,000 skilled jobs in every corner of the country.
The government estimates that the offshore wind sector could support up to 100,000 direct and indirect jobs in Great Britain by 2030. Wales is well placed to benefit, with its clean energy workforce expected to grow by around 110% by 2030 – equivalent to an increase of approximately 10,000 direct jobs from 2023 levels.
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