Germany's
decision to phase out nuclear energy and boost renewalables has led to the
creation of more green jobs. A study suggests that by 2020 half a million
people will be employed in clean energy companies.
German
government and business leaders are in agreement that the country's drive
towards sustainable and clean energy will continue to prove a job engine in the
decades ahead. In 2011, almost 382,000 people were employed in the country's
renewables sector, a fresh study by the Institute of Economic Structures
Research (GWS) showed on Wednesday.
It means
that the number of jobs in the sector has quadrupled since the turn of the
millennium. The survey said the systematic expansion of renewable energy has
not only been good from an environmental point of view, but also in terms of
innovation, growth and employment in Germany.
The study
says that while there's currently a crisis in the solar industry, it still
accounts for about a third of all people employed in the renewables sector, as
does the wind power segment.
Green
future ahead
The German
Renewable Energy Agency said employment structures differ substantially by
region. Almost every fifth worker in the industry is employed in the southern
German state of Bavaria.
If the
framework conditions and investment incentives for renewables remain in place,
more than half a million people will be employed in the green industry in
Germany by 2020, the study maintains.
German
business leaders are confident that sporadic drops in investment in domestic
wind and solar farms can in future be largely compensated by an increase in
exports of top-notch clean technology.
hg/mll (Reuters, dapd)
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