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EU wind industry skills shortage: over 5,000 more workers needed per year
The European wind industry faces a severe skills shortage of around 5,500 appropriately qualified staff per year. This shortfall could climb to 18,000 by 2030 - nearly 5% of the entire wind industry workforce - if numbers of suitable workers don’t increase. The warning comes in a report to be published by the EU’s Wind Energy Technology Platform (TPWind), based on research by ...
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NREL’s Kurtz, Tegen Honored for Clean Energy Leadership
The U.S. Clean Energy Education & Empowerment (C3E) program has honored Sarah Kurtz and Suzanne Tegen of the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for their leadership and achievement in the field of renewable energy. The C3E program, led by the Energy Department in collaboration with the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy and the MIT Energy Initiative, ...
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NREL to partner with university of Delaware on offshore wind research
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the University of Delaware (UD) today announced they will work to facilitate the potential establishment of a test site for commercial wind turbines off the Delaware coast. Under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) worth $500,000 over the next five years, UD will work with federal and ...
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Gamesa steps up purchasing from Spanish suppliers by 17% in 2016
Gamesa purchased €936 million worth of goods and services from Spanish suppliers in 2016, marking year-on-year growth of 17%, with the attendant positive impact in terms of wealth and job creation. In addition, last year Gamesa increased its Spanish supplier base by 36%, adding 859 new companies to bring the total to 3,237 suppliers. Spain accordingly accounts for the biggest share of ...
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GE Accelerates Wind Energy Development in Brazil with Opening of New Services Center
Facility is First of Two Brazilian Wind Energy Service Centers to Open this Year, Improving Efficiency and Speed of Services to Local Customers Centers Represents a $1.5M Investment of a Total of $5.5M in 2013 for the Renewable Industry in Brazil GE (NYSE: GE), one of the world's leading wind turbine suppliers with more than 20,000 units installed, today announced the opening of a new wind ...
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