Dame Nia Griffith, MP for Llanelli has today supported plans for a clean energy jobs boom in Wales, which is set to create 15,000 new jobs by 2030.
Labour’s Clean Energy Jobs Plan shows how demand for clean energy workers is set to soar with historic levels of investment in clean energy.
The first-of-a-kind plan shows how key trades such as plumbing, welding and electrification stand to benefit.
A generation of young people in Wales will benefit from new clean energy jobs under plans announced today by the UK Labour Government.
Projects in Wales such as the Hynet CCUS Cluster, Port Talbot’s Green Energy Hub and offshore wind developments along our coastline are playing a major role in driving record job growth in clean power, with 15,000 jobs set to be created in Wales in the next few years.
Labour’s plan will make sure that clean energy jobs are always good jobs, by ensuring companies receiving public grants and contracts must create jobs with decent pay, access to trade unions and strong rights at work.
Commenting on the news, Dame NIA GRIFFITH, Member of Parliament for Llanelli said:
“The Clean Energy Jobs Plan will deliver long term, well paid secure work across Wales for thousands of people over the coming years.
Here in Llanelli, we are ideally placed to capitalise on the opportunities this will bring with a firmly established manufacturing sector, a strong further and higher education base as well as being perfectly located as a gateway between South & West Wales.
The work begins now to secure the benefits of this investment for Llanelli and the surrounding areas and to take advantage of the clean energy revolution for current and future generations in our local communities.”
Ed Miliband MP, Energy Secretary said:
“The clean energy economy is the route to delivering the good jobs at decent wages that our communities deserve.
“Our pro-worker, pro-jobs, pro-union agenda is delivering thousands of opportunities right across the country, so young people don’t have to leave their hometown just to find a decent job.”