green skills

Electric vehicle (EV) trade group Recharge UK has called on the new UK government to pay attention to green skills and urged the development of of specialised training facilities.

Leaders from the energy industry aligned on a roadmap for an ‘energy skills passport’ recognising energy industry expertise and training.

A report commissioned by UK energy provider OVO Energy has shown that fewer than one in ten people report getting any dedicated green skills training at work, which the company says is a major risk to the net zero transition.

The low-carbon heating organisation Daikin UK has partnered with the Green Skill Academy to train green heating tutors at nine Greater Manchester colleges

Samsung Climate Solutions has partnered with social enterprise Your Energy Your Way (YEYW) to launch a new low-carbon heating trainee scheme.

From this week (21 September), 4,000 people will be offered £500 in funding towards training to install and maintain heat networks through the Heat Training Grant.

Daikin has announced a heat pump training course aimed at 16-to-18-year-olds.

Current± sat down with co-founders Mat Ilic, CEO of Greenworkx and Richard Ng, CTO to discuss Greenworkx’s mission to help solve the green skills emergency.

EV infrastructure company RECHARGE UK has warned that the EV skills gap threatens to derail the UK Government’s chargepoint target for 2030.

“Urgent reforms of the skills system are needed to hit net zero”, a report released by the Future Energy Skills Programme has warned.