Tens of thousands of workers will be needed in the North East and Yorkshire to decarbonise homes and help the region meet net zero targets - but training them will be a major challenge, a new study suggests.
The Domestic Retrofit Skills Needs Assessment - which was commissioned by the North East LEP and funded by the North East and Yorkshire (NEY) Net Zero Hub - examined the skills that will be needed to decarbonise homes in the North, and the opportunities the programme presents for the area.
The study has identified a number of jobs that will be needed to reduce domestic emissions, and concludes that “there is a need to transition from the current employment of 1,000 full-time equivalent workers to 80,000 if we are to achieve net zero by 2030”.
