The Energy Institute (EI), a membership body bringing together expertise for urgent global challenges, has revealed that the UK’s net-zero strategy must assemble a mass skilled workforce, but action to bring on the necessary workforce is pressing due to concerns about cost, time, and availability of courses.

The EI stated on Monday that professionals across all walks of UK energy have called for government and industry to coalesce around a national skills strategy that underpins the development of low-carbon energy and supply chains, in a just way that does not leave today’s skilled workers and their communities stranded.