Posted on 02/09/2021 9:04:55 AM PST by Hojczyk
The number of jobs in the German renewables sector (production and installation) has fallen from about 300,000 in 2011 to around 150,000 in 2018, the German Trade Union Association (DGB) found in an analysis of employment in the energy transition.
The drop in employment is mostly due to the collapse of Germany’s solar power industry over the past decade, as many companies were forced out of business thanks to cheaper competitors from China scooping up most of the market. The number of jobs in solar PV panel production and installation fell from a record 133,000 in 2011 to under 28,000 seven years later.
In the wind industry, the number of jobs dropped from its record of roughly 108,000 in 2016 to under 70,000 just two years later. “Employment with respect to construction renewable energy installations has been very dynamic in the last 20 years, both in a negative and in a positive way,” the DGB said, arguing that many more jobs could be created in the sector again.
Dr Gordon Hughes,
For the longer term, there is little doubt that the primary beneficiary [of green energy policies] will be China. That is already apparent from the way the market is developing.
Renewable energy, he added, will always be a net jobs-killer because of its effects on the broader economy. By driving up the cost of energy — perhaps doubling it — and diverting capital spending from more efficient sectors of the economy, renewables destroy more jobs than they create.
In terms of the labour market, the gains for a small number of actual or potential employees in businesses specialising in renewable energy has to be weighed against the dismal prospects for a much larger group of workers producing tradable goods in the rest of the manufacturing sector.
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Coming to a country near you.
Gee, that’s too bad.
Ping.
“Green energy” results:
#1. Jobs flow to China. People have less income (Exhibit 1 - Germany)
#2. Energy prices soar. People cannot afford energy (Exhibit 2 - Germany)
#3. Energy grid unstable, blackouts frequent. (Exhibit 3 - Germany)
#4. People freeze. Industries leave. Life is miserable. (Exhibit 4 - Germany)
Coming to a country near you.
Formerly before the last election*, known as America.
*Please read my tagline.
They might actually have some WWII land mines to fall back on.
Is this the ‘emergency’ they’re screaming about now?
It used to be that a nation’s government protected their people by enforcing tariffs and barriers against foreign goods. I guess “Buy German” is not a popular slogan in Germany.
German Green Jobs Fail - bump for later.....
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