I'm an old cynic, but I can't see where the demand for 400,000 additional 'green jobs' in the next 5 years will come from.
Even with government grants (read - we'll be taxed to create subsidies) is this target realistic?
And what's a 'green' job anyway? For example, a chap / chapess replacing a gas boiler with an electric one isn't really a 'green' job to my way of thinking. If this becomes attractive to people it will be because of further market distortions arising from 'policy costs' that drive up gas prices excessively. It's not really 'green' to replace something that works simply because it's become too expensive to operate.
But with policy support, maybe that's the thing to get into for younger people with a tech inclination. Perhaps that's the contract market for the future.
Of course there'a always the risk that a future government would remove policy and subsidy costs from energy markets, enabling proper market functioning and price transparency.
Even with government grants (read - we'll be taxed to create subsidies) is this target realistic?
And what's a 'green' job anyway? For example, a chap / chapess replacing a gas boiler with an electric one isn't really a 'green' job to my way of thinking. If this becomes attractive to people it will be because of further market distortions arising from 'policy costs' that drive up gas prices excessively. It's not really 'green' to replace something that works simply because it's become too expensive to operate.
But with policy support, maybe that's the thing to get into for younger people with a tech inclination. Perhaps that's the contract market for the future.
Of course there'a always the risk that a future government would remove policy and subsidy costs from energy markets, enabling proper market functioning and price transparency.
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