£25m Regional Growth Fund cash targets renewables opportunity

It’s very good news that Hull and the East Riding have won £25m from the Regional Growth Fund to retrain workers for renewable energy jobs. Ministers say the funding will create at least 3,500 jobs, train more than 900 workers and assist local companies to diversify in order to seize the huge green opportunity.

It certainly looks to me like this funding is being targeted in exactly the right places and may well be key to pump-priming the industry and re-skilling the workforce to secure employment within it.
It’s also being claimed that it’s another move to encourage Siemens to commit to Hull as the site of a major offshore wind turbine manufacturing facility. We continue to have our fingers crossed.
East Yorkshire gets £25m for green jobs training