It was a pleasure to interview Georgina Worrall, Head of POWERful Women, at Solar and Storage Live in Birmingham this year!
Solar&StorageXtra is the new publishing part of the Solar and Storage Live event series where we will be interviewing our esteemed speakers, exhibitors, sponsors and attendees to get their live reactions to the event and the important discussions within the industry.
Georgina joined Solar&StorageXtra to discuss the importance of diversity and inclusion practices when achieving Net Zero targets.
Georgina explained that in a report titled the ‘Race to Net Zero’, co-created by POWERful Women and National Grid, by 2050 the industry must need to create 400,000 more jobs to meet the capacity of the energy transition. Of these 400,000 jobs, 260,000 of these do not currently exist and the remaining 160,000 will be those leaving the industry.
When hiring, a new, inclusive and diverse workforce is of paramount importance to reaching Net Zero. The industry cannot be stuck in its ways, hiring the same people for the same roles. What the industry must do is increase the level of diversity and create a more inclusive workforce in the renewable energy space, only then will the capacity for the workforce be reached.
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