The city of Hull could be set for a major jobs boom after development plans have been agreed for a major offshore wind turbine manufacturing plant to be built off the city. The plant will bring up to 10,000 jobs to the city.
Engineering conglomerate Siemens and port operator Associated British Ports (ABP) agreed to develop plans for the facility at Alexandra Dock. No date is given for when this project will be started once it gets the final go ahead.
A massive joint venture in the nuclear sector could create 11,000 jobs in the UK’s energy industry.
The joint venture between EON and RWE npower would create 800 permanent jobs and 10,000 temporary jobs during the construction phase over a period of 15 years.
A renewable energy engineering centre is to create 250 new jobs in Glasgow with Scottish and Southern Energy.
The £20 million centre of Engineering Excellence for Renewable Energy (CEERE) will create and develop the engineering side of SSE’s offshore and onshore wind farms across Europe.
Digital innovation boosted by a new £150 million fund aiming to ensure that the country becomes a world leader in terms of technology jobs.
Pledging to create an ideal environment in which hi-tech companies are able to thrive over the coming years, Gordon Brown revealed that the public sector investment will be supplemented by up to £1 billion worth of private sector funding in fields such as life sciences, biotechnology and digital manufacturing.
The prime minister also expressed confidence that as much as £100 billion will be ploughed into the UK’s burgeoning green energy sector, with more than 400,000 new jobs in the construction and engineering sectors alone set to be created as a result.
“And we believe investment by government and the private sector will enable the economy to create, over the next five years, 1.5 million new skilled jobs in Britain.”
Is this too little too late?
Projects in the goverement sector have apparently risen 39% compared to this time last year according to monitoring service Emap Glenigan.
Construction recruiter Shorterm recently claimed that they had seen a real increase in work. They had made 120 more placements since the end of January.
Continued work at Olympic sites, at airports and on rail networks has ensured that business has remained bouyant
2009 is expected to be a good year with continued development of the energy sector and transport infrastructure.
