Renewables11 May 2021 06:24
News
10th May
"BARROW has been highlighted as a location targeted for 30,000 new jobs in UK steel fabrication to build approximately 300 giant wind
turbines each year"
"Up to 30,000 new jobs are required in the UK steel fabrication sector to build the approximately 300 giant offshore wind turbines each year every year to meet official UK net zero carbon emissions electricity new capacity by 2050."
"The areas with existing steel fabrication skills and/or access to the sea that the Renewables Development Authority should look at are: Clydeside, Western Isles, Dundee, Fife, Tyneside, Wearside, Teesside, Humberside, King's Lynn, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Felixstowe, Harwich, Medway, Portsmouth, Southampton, Weymouth, Plymouth, Falmouth, APPLEDORE, Avonside, Milford Haven, Pembroke, Anglesey, Merseyside, Barrow and BELFAST"
"Task forces should be set up in these areas to identify suitable sites and develop the political pressure for these areas to get a slice of this steel fabrication work. Steel communities also need to join the political campaign for UK steel in the new wind turbines."