ScottishPower has announced its biggest-ever recruitment drive, with at least 1,000 green jobs up for grabs.

This follows a record number of green energy infrastructure projects secured by the company in the first half of 2022.

The new roles will be filled by next summer, and are across all areas of ScottishPower's businesses and at all stages - from trainees to time-served trades and supporting roles.

Keith Anderson, chief executive of ScottishPower, said yesterday: "The future of energy in the UK has become a critical issue.

"Our climate-change ambitions, the importance of energy sovereignty and the cost-of-living crisis all point to a need for speed in delivering more green, more secure and more affordable energy.

"These three critical needs are not in conflict with each other and, given our unique position in the UK as the only integrated energy company investing in renewables, electricity grids and helping homes to decarbonise, ScottishPower is an engine for growth across the communities we serve.

"The momentum of the first six months of 2022 and our record of achievement now gives us our biggest-ever investment pipeline of green energy assets to help deliver the Government's energy strategy and net zero for the UK.

Biggest-ever call for green recruits

"As a direct result, we now need at least 1,000 people to join us in new positions over the next 12 months to design, build and operate this green energy infrastructure and that's why today, we're issuing our biggest-ever call for green recruits right across the country to fulfil our ambitions."

In January, ScottishPower was a big winner in the ScotWind auction, with seabed rights awarded for three offshore projects with total capacity of 7GW - two large-scale floating projects in partnership with Shell and one solo fixed project. Taken together, these projects treble ScottishPower's offshore wind pipeline to more than 10GW and boosts its position in UK's offshore wind market.

Other new projects for ScottishPower include 16 renewable-energy developments - offshore, onshore and solar - across the UK in the Allocation Round 4 process. Totalling 2.1GW, these projects will spur investment of up to £4billion.

Alok Sharma MP, president for the COP26 climate-change conference held in Glasgow last year, said: "I welcome the announcement from ScottishPower. In November 2020 the UK Government launched the Green Jobs Taskforce to support the creation of 2million skilled jobs to build back greener from the Covid-19 pandemic, and reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

"Long-term, good-quality green jobs are crucial for the UK's economic recovery and tackling climate change. This green-jobs push will help set the direction for the market as we transition to a high-skill, low-carbon economy."

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