Solar power could create more than 8,500 new jobs in Scotland by the end of this decade, if Scottish ministers can match the “ambition” of the sector.
Solar Energy Scotland released new figures showing that if its target of six gigawatts (GW) capacity of new solar power can be achieved by 2030, that is the number of jobs that could be created.
And such a move would see the sector employ five times as many people as worked in Scotland’s aquaculture industry in 2020.
