Below is a snapshot of the full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs for projects financially committed and under construction across Australia as of April 2021.
Technology | Jobs (financially committed + under construction projects) |
---|---|
Battery storage (large-scale) | 8485 |
Bioenergy/Biomass | 771 |
Pumped hydro | 3735 |
Solar (large-scale) | 7385 |
Wind | 8273 |
Total | 28,649 |
These figures are based on calculations using employment factors for each technology that were defined in the Clean Energy at Work research, undertaken by the Institute of Sustainable Futures for the Clean Energy Council in June 2020.