Clean energy jobs boost

Over 400,000 extra jobs will be created by 2030 under the UK’s first ever national plan to recruit workers for the clean energy mission.

Five new clean energy colleges will be established with more than 30 priority occupations identified.

The Government said employment in the sector is expected to double to 860,000 by 2030.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said: “Communities have long been calling out for a new generation of good industrial jobs. The clean energy jobs boom can answer that call - and today we publish a landmark national plan to make it happen. 

“Thanks to this government’s commitment to clean energy, a generation of young people in our industrial heartlands can have well-paid secure jobs, from plumbers to electricians and welders.”