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RENEWABLE UK


First Minister hails UK’s first Modern Apprenticeship for renewables industry


The First Minister “TheWind Turbine Technician Modern Apprenticeship is an exciting first for Scotland and the UK - and I’m pleased we're supporting it through Skills Development Scotland. The Scottish Government delivered more than 20,000 Modern Apprenticeships last year and we expect another 20,000 new starts this year. This new scheme highlights the flexibility and responsiveness of our Modern Apprenticeship programme, by engaging a key emerging sector where we already have comparative advantages. Construction and related sectors are now incorporating training for low carbon technologies and we recently launched a low carbon fund designed to re-skill and up-skill employees. I congratulate those embarking on this pioneering apprenticeship scheme at Carnegie College and thank the employers and partners who helped deliver it. These apprentices will play a key role in forging a new green economy in Scotland.”


SCOTLAND’S FIRST MINISTER ALEX SALMOND TODAY JOINEDWITH THEWIND ENERGY SECTOR TO FORMALLY MARK THE LAUNCH OF THE UK’S FIRST MODERN APPRENTICESHIP SCHEME FOR THE RENEWABLES INDUSTRY.


Speaking in Glasgow at RenewableUK 2010, the wind and marine energy trade body’s 32nd Annual Conference & Exhibition, the First Minister awarded the collaborative efforts of the six partners involved in delivering the Wind Turbine Technician Modern Apprenticeship. Siemens, REpower and Weir Group were each recognised for pioneering the recruitment of apprentices for the training route. The qualification holds the quality hallmark of City & Guilds and meets the standards of the National Skills Academy for Power.


The fifteen candidates, who have become the first young people to start the full-time scheme at Fife’s Carnegie College also attended the launch and met with the First Minister. The three-year engineering qualification is split evenly between on- the-job training with the employers and college-based learning.


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RenewableUK Chief Executive, Maria McCaffery MBE “This is a truly significant step for the industry and I would like to congratulate the tenacious efforts of all those involved. Over the next decade the UK expects to see the contribution to electricity from wind to increase to around 30%from the 5%it stands at today.With a twelve-fold increase in the number of employees needed to fuel this growth, training initiatives such as the apprenticeship scheme are absolutely crucial. The industry and its partners in education and skills should be extremely proud of what has been achieved here and we look forward to seeing more colleges and employers across the country taking up the scheme.”


Christoph Ehlers, Managing Director, Siemens Renewables Division, UK “As the leading supplier of offshore and onshore wind turbines, grid connections and service and maintenance in the UK, our support of the apprenticeship scheme is critical, not only to our business, but to the industry as a whole. We already provide a great deal of training via our dedicated wind power training centre in Newcastle, but the new scheme complements this perfectly.We want to build up a sustainable way of offering young people careers in theWind Industry.We wish all current and future apprentices all the best in their careers.”


Rick Eggleston, Managing Director,


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