4 Skills 4.1 Overview
4.1.1 Target: EA1’s target is to ensure a fully skilledworkforce and appropriately trainedworkforce of between 1,500 – 3,000 people is available to deliver the EA1 Project safely and efficiently. EA1 is determined to do this by preparing the local work force in East Anglia with the necessary skills required in order to leave a legacy of highly skilled and experienced people to support the delivery of the next eleven offshore wind projects in the EA Zone and benefit the wider low carbon generation industry. [S4] {ii, iii}
4.1.2 Consent commitment to invest in skills: During the Public Examination of the EA1 consent application, EA1 set out its intent to invest in skills and deliver a skills strategy. [S3]
4.1.3 As part of this examination process a Skills Letter of Intent was issued by EA1 in July 2013. During examination a requirement was added to the final EA1 Development Consent Order for a skills strategy to be submitted and approved by local authorities and Suffolk County Council. In response to this EA1 has developed an Outline Skills Strategy (Annex 9). This outline strategy will be developed into a final skills strategy during 2015 and early 2016. The principles of the strategy will be delivered through a Skills Implementation Planwhich will come into effect in 2016. Themain principles of the outline strategy are: [S1,S2,S3,S4,S5] {ii,iii}
To ensure the necessary balance of demand for, and supply of, professional and vocational skills to support the delivery of the EA1 Project and to leave a legacy;
To promote employment and re-skilling opportunities in the communitiesmost closely associatedwith the development of the EA1 Project;
To utilise existing parent company skills programmes where andwhen possible and appropriate; and
Tomake best use of existing local and national education and skills infrastructures and add value to these where appropriate.
4.2 Assessment of the future skills required [S1]
4.2.1 EA1will generate significant employment & Gross Value Added (GVA): An assessment of skills was included in the Environmental Statement prepared for consenting purposes in 2012 which included a chapter on the socio-economic impact of EA1. As part of this submission, an employment demand forecast was prepared which indicated the following FTE requirements at each stage of the project (including direct, indirect and induced roles). This analysis was initially performed for a project of up to 1200MWin size. Using this methodology the number of jobs projected for a project of 600MWproject would equate to:
Construction Operations
Decommissioning
577 – 1,391 FTEs per year for 3 years 58 -84 FTEs per year for 25 years 100 FTEs per year for 2 years
4.2.2 Using thismethodology the net additional jobs would represent between £27Mand £52MGVA per annum at a regional level, between £9Mand £35Mfor net additional jobs elsewhere in the UK, and in total between £36Mand £87M. Further detail around the types of role required at each stage are included in Annex 5. [S1,S2]
4.2.3 EA1 considers that the construction projections shown above, which were calculated in 2012, are likely to be exceeded based onmore recent information obtained fromthe supply chainwhich indicates peak employment of around 3,000 FTEs during construction (Annex 2F). EA1 has considered this information in setting its ambitious jobs target above (4.1.1). [S1,S2]
4.2.4 In addition to the job estimates above, the EA1 project teamcurrently includes 80 FTEs employed to complete the development phase of the project.
4.3 Assessment of the gaps between now and the future requirements [S2]
4.3.1 During the early development of the EA Zone, EA1 assessed the general skills requirements for the project. The assessment concluded thatmore detailed skills analysis for the construction, execution and operational phase of the project would need to be carried out but EA1 had the necessary experience and resource in place to complete the development phase. The assessment also indicated that the occupational profile of
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