Energy & Utility Skills

Carrying out research into the low-carbon industry is a key focus for us, below you can find all the up-to-date research that has been completed.

If you're looking for something specific which isn't here, please email research@euskills.co.uk or contact Rob Murphy, Head of Research, on 0845 077 7054.

Latest Research

Energy & Utility Skills Apprenticeships Evaluation - we need your views!

18 January 2012

EU Skills is evaluating the effectiveness of our Apprenticeship frameworks, measuring their success in helping employers meet their workforce and skills needs.

Feeding into the development of EU Skills' Apprenticeship Strategy, the evaluation will identify and explore opportunities to improve processes, increase take-up and develop new frameworks or pathways. It will also gather evidence to help EU Skills influence external Apprenticeship policy.

The results will feed into the development of EU Skills' Talent Bank initiative. Talent Bank aims to fulfil the latent skills demands of our industries through new training solutions and the delivery of an increased supply of skilled people into jobs.

Apprenticeships play a fundamental role in this endeavour, and the evaluation will play a key part in ensuring that the Apprenticeship frameworks are fit for purpose.

> More information on EU Skills Evaluation of Apprenticeships

Sector Skills Assessments 2010

Our 2010 Sector Skills Assessment (SSA) reports are robust and authoritative examinations of the skills needs across the UK's gas, power, waste management and water industries. They draw upon evidence from a range of recognised data sources and is combined with our own intelligence gathered through our own research, including our Workforce Planning Model, and direct engagement with employers and stakeholders across the sector.

> Sector Skills Assessments 2010

Working for a Green Britain - Future Employment and Skills in the UK Wind & Marine Industries

Working for a Green Britain reports on the current state of employment and skills in the UK's wind and marine energy industries. Produced in partnership with RenewableUK, this research shows that employment levels in this increasingly important aspect of the UK's power industry has almost doubled over the last three years, and that one-quarter of employers is having difficulty recruiting the skills and experience that they require.

> Working for a Green Britain: Vol 1 (February 2011)

The first phase of research focused on a snapshot of employment and skills in 2010 and was published in February 2011. Working for a Green Britain reported that for April 2010 the wind and marine energy industry directly employed 10,600 full-time equivalent
(FTE) employees.1 It also revealed that in the three years between 2007 and 2010 the large-scale on- and offshore wind energy sector experienced stellar growth, adding 4,400 FTEs, thus near doubling the wind energy workforce to 9,200.

> Working for a Green Britain: Vol 2 (July 2011)

This follow-up report investigates the future potential employment opportunity and the scale of the resourcing challenge in the UK wind and marine energy sector between April 2010 and April 2021. The scope of the study covers UK onshore, offshore, and small wind and marine energy.

> Training Provision in Largescale Wind Renewables (September 2010)

This research looks to identify employers skills needs and to understand the extent to which these needs are being met through existing education and training provision. This work, with EU Skills working in collaboration with ConstructionSkills, Semta, SummitSkills and the Department for Employment and Learning, will inform the development of a strategy and action plan to address skills issues in the largescale wind energy industry in Northern Ireland.

> Low Carbon Cluster Sector Skills Assessment Report (December 2009)

This particular report is the product of collaboration between 11 SSCs and one statutory industry training body that, between them, are responsible for much of the low carbon cluster and seeks to advance the understanding of:

• The strategic context and drivers behind the development of low carbon industries;
• The range and scope of low carbon industries and how they affect many areas of economic life;
• The current skills issues facing the development of low carbon industries;
• Anticipated future skills demand and supply issues, including the identification of skills mismatches;
• Cross cutting issues affecting a number of individual low carbon industries;
• Key messages for government and priorities for action to support the development of a low carbon cluster.

> Renewable Sector Skills Analysis - Scotland (2009)
This report sets out the structure of the renewable energy sector in Scotland and identifies the skills supply and demand issues affecting it.

>Energy Skills - Opportunity and Challenge (October 2008)

A report to Government by the Sector Skills Organisations responsible for Energy. A response to the Energy White Paper 2007.

This report, produced in collaboration with Cogent, the National Skills Academy for Nuclear and the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECIRB), identifies the present and future skills shortages and gaps and sets out the actions being taken to ensure the UK has a skilled workforce for the future. It also makes recommendations on how the delivery of skills can be improved.

> Renewable Energy Occupational and Functional Map (2007)
This document identifies and defines all the occupations that exist in the offshore wind, wave and tidal, hydrogen and fuel cell aspects of the renewable energy industry (the 'Occupational Map'). It also identifies all of the functions that are embraced within these occupations (the 'Functional Map').

> Renewable Energy Occupational and Functional Map (2005)
This document identifies and defines all the occupations that exist in the biomass, hydroelectric, photovoltaic, solar, geothermal, heat pumps and wind aspects of the renewable energy industry (the 'Occupational Map'). It also identifies all of the functions that are embraced within these occupations (the 'Functional Map').