Ireland urged to build €1bn green energy sector with 20,000 engineers

IRELAND could develop a €1 billion green industry by specialising in the education of the 20,000 service engineers that will be desperately needed across Europe in the next 10 years, a European wind expert has said.

Siemens head of sales for EMEA North, Tom Krojgaard, said there is a specific educational market that Ireland could capitalise on as no one college or university is specialising in this area.

Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LKIT) has already announced its intention to establish itself as the country’s first ‘wind academy’ and has built a training turbine for student service engineers.