South Africa’s fledgling wind turbine service technician training programme will be “training its graduates for unemployment” if construction on the next round of State-commissioned wind farms does not get under way this year, warns South African Renewable Energy Technology Centre (Saretec) director Naim Rassool. With the wind sector’s domestic job market set to become saturated, the industry is “anxious” that continued delays by State-owned power utility Eskom to sign power purchase agreements (PPAs) with selected independent power producers (IPPs) in the short to medium term will send the graduates of 2018 and beyond into unemployment.
Source: www.engineeringnews.co.za
PPA stand-off risks future wind energy jobs as new graduates enter saturated market
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