Photovoltaic power installers, biodiversity experts, green hydrogen developers, recycling plant operators, offshore wind power engineers and thus up to a hundred jobs. The demand for specialized jobs from companies entering the green transition is under-supplied globally..
“There’s investment in green energy that hasn’t been realized because of a lack of talent. It’s a drama,” explains Juan Luis Aguirrezábal, head of employability at Iberdrola, which has just launched the Global Green Employment platform. the aim of bringing green employment, guidance and education supply and demand in touch. “As world leaders in renewable energy, we have this responsibility. It’s part of a social component. 25 years ago, when we started committing to green energy, they called us crazy, we were in sci-fi… and now look“Aguirrezábal claims.
20,263 jobs required
According to a report by the Fundación Biodiversidad España, the country will create 253,000 to 348,000 green jobs annually by 2030, of which just over 100,000 will be related to renewable energies. This European Union He also calculates that 48% of active workers will need retraining to face these changes.
Right now, Iberdrola’s platform already reports a need for 20,263 green jobs in Spain, from state to state. Companies that have already announced their demands include Applus+, Ingeteam, Schneider, Tecnalia and Eiffage. “We have 23,000 suppliers worldwide that we want to help because they can’t find people to develop their projects. We are looking for a thousand staff at Iberdrola alone worldwide. We are in touch with not only highly qualified engineers, but also associations. Aguirrezábal, percentage of solar panel installers who also need training” he explains. This indicates that while the platform’s public domain will always serve as an orientation to the entire industry, there will be no job offers from the competition.
Is Global Green a job portal? “No. There are professionals already doing this work. We don’t want to swallow their work. We will guide and direct. Employment companies, including manhunter consultants, will be collaborative. We will develop content that will include a special area and eventually open the doors to a whole world of e-learning.“, To explain.
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One of the aims of the Iberdrola project is to organize the education and training offer in green energy through the existing university program. “Not titularity, but a clear tendency towards specialisation. There is a saturation of the training offer where, due to inertia, many people are trained in skills that have no future.. We’re going to expand the incidence,” says Iberdrola’s manager.
By the end of the year, Iberdrola has proposed the initial development of the platform in Spain, including the expansion of content and the signing of alliances. By 2024, it wants to expand to 27 more countries where they are already working on the legal, technical and responsible search. The most important markets for the group, chaired by Ignacio Sánchez Galán, are the USA, with Iberdrola’s subsidiary Avangrid, Scottish Power UK, Neonergía Brazil and Mexico. “As in Spain and the rest of Europe, United States of America It is also very difficult for us to find engineers to undertake the work.”.