Renewable energy a job generator in Germany

Berlin expects employment figures in Germany’s renewable energy sector to nearly double by 2020, banking on the country’s technology edge and a large pool of qualified personnel. “The renewable energy market is a German success story,” Sigmar Gabriel, the country’s environment minister, said Wednesday in Berlin. “We expect up to 300,000 people working in this sector by 2020.”

As fossil fuel reserves are gradually diminishing, experts expect the renewable energy sector to gain in importance — and Germany should have an edge when it comes to selling its know-how and qualified workers to other nations, Staiss said. “No country in the world spends more money on technological progress in this sector than Germany,” he said, adding Germany was the world leader in exporting wind and solar energy technologies.

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