Solar employment booms as more households than ever have solar panels installed!

After announcing the intention of an extensive survey and study of the UK solar industry in 2013, The Building Research Establishment (BRE) National Solar Centre (NSC) has published some of the preliminary results, which make for interesting reading.

The report states that approximately 14,000 full-time UK jobs were associated with the solar PV (photovoltaics) industry last year (including both ground-mounted and building projects, as well as office positions). This total sum has reinforced the potential of the solar market and is testament to the growing number of households adopting a sustainable energy solution in the form of solar panels.

The report, was commissioned by the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC), and will be used to measure the economic standing of the growing UK PV industry.

Associate director of the BRE National Solar Centre, Jonny Williams said that BRE used their own methodology to put together the study so they could relate actual job numbers to product quantities installed last year.

Additional details of the report are set to be published in DECC’s Solar Strategy publication in the weeks to come.

To back up the figures reported by BRE, the share of electricity generated from renewable sources increased globally last year, according to a report compiled by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) and the Frankfurt School.

As well as highlighting the solar booms in China and Japan, the report found that solar generated the highest share of renewable electricity, rising 26% from 31GW in 2012 to a record high of 39GW last year.

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