Wind Energy Industry Ireland has launched a new recruitment campaign that is aimed at young people.

The company announced the 'Work in Wind' campaign at the 2023 Wind Energy Trade Show. Using the new platform for the campaign, WorkinWind.ie, students and young people can find out more about the career opportunities in Irish renewable energy.

Currently there are more than 5,000 people employed in the Irish wind energy industry but as the race to achieve the targets set out in the Climate Action Plan accelerates, this number will much more than double by the end of the decade.

Lisa-Anne Crookes, Communications Manager with Wind Energy Ireland, said: "We know that young people are passionate about climate action and there is a much greater emphasis on it in the curriculum with the new Leaving Cert course on Climate Action and Sustainable Development

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"WorkinWind.ie will inspire and empower this generation of young people to play their role in Ireland’s renewable future, by highlighting clear paths to a broad range of careers in the renewable energy sector."

Noel Cunniffe, CEO of Wind Energy Ireland, said: "The renewable energy industry is growing rapidly in Ireland and around the world. Together, we are creating a future free of fossil fuels. Whatever your passion, whatever your interest, there is a place for you with us.

"Over the next ten years we will need thousands of engineers and technicians, planners and ecologists, pilots and sailors, builders and designers, accountants and lawyers, if we are to build an industry that can decarbonise Ireland’s energy supply.

"Workinwind.ie is the start of a national campaign to inform, inspire and encourage young people to join the global renewable energy revolution, to build a career and save the planet."