Green lobby launches manifesto to create jobs from renewable energy

Scottish Renewables chief says as many as 17,500 jobs could be heading to Scotland from green energy, reports Valerie Darroch

The next few months will determine whether Scotland can reap the sizable economic potential benefits of and jobs boosts from renewable energy.

Scotttish Renewables, an umbrella body representing more than 600 companies in the sector, says that Scotland has a chance of gaining up to half of an estimated 35,000 jobs it believes will be created in the industry in the UK by 2020.

Sunday Herald