Renewable Energy, Storage, and Transmission Construction Employment Factors and Occupational Employment Shares for Australia

摘要: This study contributes to global energy workforce planning by developing updated employment factors and occupational shares for the electricity workforce based on large-scale surveys in Australia. Growing the energy workforce is key to delivering the energy transition, with labour shortages already observed globally. To enable training programs and other workforce development we need to know the scale, location, timing, and occupational composition of the required workforce. However, there are significant data gaps which mean projections may not reflect current employment intensity. We undertook large-scale surveys of the most dynamic elements of the Australian renewable industry (solar, wind, hydro, batteries, and transmission construction) to derive indicators for numbers and types of jobs created at each project stage. This paper presents the derived job indicators, compares them to international estimates, and presents the detailed occupational share for each technology. These indicators were used to make projections for the Australian 2022 Integrated System Plan for electricity, and sample results are presented. The results demonstrate that wind, solar and hydro jobs resulting from least cost scenarios for electricity infrastructure during the transition to renewable energy are highly volatile, corresponding to the common boom-bust cycles in renewable electricity. There is also significant overlap between skills needed for transmission line and renewable generation construction. As countries try to rapidly expand renewable capacity and the required transmission infrastructure, the integration of workforce considerations into electricity …