The Opergy Group is delighted to reveal its highly powerful jobs calculators for the low carbon power generation technologies.
Each one is capable of forecasting the number of current and future jobs in the 12 UK regions and provides a granular breakdown of the different skills each sector will require.
Opergy Limited has been working closely with the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) over the past 10 months to design and develop these powerful models, which cover all of the low carbon power sectors, including wind, solar, nuclear, biomass and other power generation with caron capture and storage.
Building these has necessitated that Opergy invest huge amounts of research, industry engagement and high-level data analysis, and then utilise the current planning pipeline of projects to forecast the number of jobs over the short to medium-term, before finally laying the current government generation targets alongside the data to predict job numbers out to 2050.
This has now left us with a set of flexible and powerful regional job calculators which can be used for other tasks. We are already in discussions on developing jobs data for Europe, more granular datasets within the UK and exploring other technologies close to the power sector.
Some of the data from the regional jobs models is being made freely available through our Energy Skills Intelligence Hub (www.energyskillshub.co.uk) which has been funded by both OPITO and the ECITB.
We are currently updating the information that we already offer through this platform, and will announce when this has been made live.
Commenting on the announcement, Mark Buckton, Opergy’s Associate Director of Employment & Skills said: “The regional calculators and the energy skills intelligence hub provides the UK’s energy sector with powerful tools to help it plan for the UK’s future and increasing skills needs, enabling companies to look much wider than their own needs when thinking about targeting training & development and transitional pathways.”
If you’re interested in learning more, please contact mark.buckton@opergy.co.uk.
