Renewable Energy: Seas and Oceans

(asked on 19th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to remove barriers experienced by offshore oil and gas workers when seeking to transition to green jobs in the offshore energy sector.


Answered by
Lord Callanan Portrait
Lord Callanan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 5th January 2023

In March 2022, a tripartite agreement was reached between the bodies which oversee offshore wind training and qualifications – OPITO, the Global Wind Organisation, and the International Contractors Association – to align training standards to enable workforce mobility.

As part of the commitments in the North Sea Transition Deal, OPITO published an Integrated People and Skills Strategy in May 2022, highlighting the benefits of a managed energy transition and committed to create an aligned training and standards framework (Energy Skills Passport), which will enable skills transfer across the offshore energy sector. This is expected to be deployed in 2023.

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