A CLIMATE CHANGE CALL TO ACTION
At Solar Energy International (SEI), we believe building the global solar energy workforce is essential to stopping catastrophic climate change.
Today, there are 3.6 million jobs in the global solar PV industry.
BY 2050 WE NEED 11.9 MILLION SOLAR JOBS.
THAT’S 3x MORE THAN WHAT EXISTS TODAY.
All to generate a transformation of the global energy system that limits the rise in global temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius, preventing catastrophic climate change.
Source: IRENA Global Energy Transformation: Roadmap to 2050
OUR GOAL: SOLAR JOBS THAT COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE
To reach this target, we must work together to create a safe, skilled, and equitable solar workforce. As a leader in technical solar training internationally, we see the urgent need to step up, scale, and transform our operations to significantly grow the global solar energy workforce in the next 30 years. That is why we have set the following big, audacious goals to honor the urgency of action needed to combat climate change.
TRAIN
272,500
FOR THE GLOBAL WORKFORCE BY 2025
TRAIN
FOR THE GLOBAL WORKFORCE BY 2025
TRAIN
10%
OF THE GLOBAL WORKFORCE BY 2030
TRAIN
OF THE GLOBAL WORKFORCE BY 2030
TRAIN
35%
OF THE GLOBAL WORKFORCE BY 2050
TRAIN
OF THE GLOBAL WORKFORCE BY 2050
272,500 by 2025
Our Roadmap for Building the Global Solar Energy Workforce.
Over the next 30 years, SEI will work collaboratively to build the capacity of the global solar energy workforce needed to overcome the skill gap, safety, and equity challenges of workers that limit widescale adoption of solar. To achieve this, we have defined our first milestone as training 272,500 individuals by 2025, putting us on track to train 10% of the global solar energy workforce by 2030, and 35% by 2050. We aim to train 272,500 individuals by 2025 through the following actions.