The job market in the energy industry is changing. More and more jobs in fossil energy production are being lost, while new jobs are being generated in the renewable energy sector. How do the affected workers deal with this?

80% of current employees in Scotland's oil and gas industry believe their jobs are at risk from climate change, according to a recent survey by Survation for industry organisation Scottish Renewables. And the figures prove them right: up to 30,000 jobs could be lost in the fossil fuel industry as soon as 2022.

The reasons for this are many and varied. More electric vehicles and low-carbon heating systems, as well as ...

JERA is planning to construct an offshore wind farm off Ishikari Bay, Hokkaido, Japan and has submitted its Planning Phase Environmental Impact Statement to the Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry yesterday.

JERA wants to construct a wind farm with bottom-fixed turbines at Ishikari Bay, Hokkaido because of its favorable wind conditions, shallow seabed, and the spare capacity of the nearby power grid.

The planned ...

RWE Supply & Trading markets the entire electricity production of the Waddenwind onshore wind farm, which was developed by a group of local farmers in the province of Groningen.

RWE intends to market the green electricity, including guarantees of origin, to its major industrial and municipal customers. The Waddenwind wind farm consists of 12 turbines with a capacity of 54 MW and is located in a dyked ...

The renewable energy group Omega Geração is buying a 50 percent stake in wind farms owned by the French EDF Renewables Group in the Brazilian state of Bahia.

The turbines in the Ventos da Bahia 1 and 2 wind farm clusters have a capacity of 182.6 megawatts, as reported by Reuters. The two groups are also negotiating the additional purchase of wind farms with a capacity of 265 MW. Omega had recently acquired several wind ...

The Forschungszentrum Jülich has installed an Antaris small wind turbine at its rooftop

Here, the plant works 3-phase parallel to the grid with the Smartwind SW5.5 (

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