“There is a lack of green talent. It’s a drama.”

PV installers, biodiversity specialists, green hydrogen developers, recycling plant operators, offshore wind engineers, and so on up to a hundred jobs. Demand for specialized businesses by companies immersed in the green transition finds insufficient supply globally.

“There is an investment in green energy that cannot be implemented due to lack of talent. It is a drama,” he explains. Juan Luis AguirizabalHead of recruitment Iberdrola, a company just launched a global green recruitment platform, aiming to connect the supply and demand of green employment, mentoring and training. “As world leaders in renewables, we’ve had this responsibility. It’s part of the social component. 25 years ago, when we started our commitment to green energy, they called us crazy, that we were in science fiction…and look nowAguirrezábal claims.

20,263 jobs are required

According to a report by Fundación Biodiversidad España, the country will create between 253,000 and 348,000 green jobs annually until 2030, of which just over 100,000 jobs are related to renewable energies. The EU also calculates that 48% of active workers will have to retrain to meet these changes.

at the moment, The Iberdrola platform is already reporting the need for 20,263 green jobs in Spainfrom province to province. Among the companies that have already announced their claim are Applus+, Ingeteam, Schneider, Tecnalia, and Eiffage. “We have 23,000 suppliers all over the world that we want to help because they cannot find people to develop their projects. Only in Iberdrola globally we are looking for a thousand employees. They are not just highly qualified engineers, we are also in contact with associations of solar panel installers who need Also to training, ”explains Aguirizabal. This indicates that there will be no job offers from the competition, although the general area of ​​the platform will always serve as a direction for the entire sector.

Is Global Green a job portal? “No. There are already professionals doing this work. We don’t want to swallow their work. We will be mentoring and reorienting. Recruiters, including employment consultants, will be collaborative.” We will develop content that includes a special area and that could end up opening up a whole world of e-learninghe explains.

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One of the objectives of the Iberdrola project is to organize the educational and training offer in green energy through its already existing university programme. The clear trend is towards specialization, not inflammation. There is a saturation in the offer of training, as many people, by inertia, are training in skills that have no future. “We’re going to expand the incidence,” says the Iberdrola manager.

Until the end of the year, Iberdrola proposed the initial development of the platform in Spain, which includes expanding content and signing alliances. From 2024, it wants to expand it to 27 more countries, where they are already working on the legal and technical aspects and finding those responsible. The most important markets for the group headed by Ignacio Sánchez Galán are the United States – Iberdrola’s subsidiary is Avagrid – the United Kingdom – Scotland Power – Brazil – Neunergia – and Mexico. As in Spain and the rest of Europe, in United States of America It is also very difficult for us to find engineers to do the works.”.