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<p>The Department for Business Innovation and Skills has made an assessment of employment and nominal sales growth in the renewable energy sector and its wider supply chain in the South West, and published this data in the Low Carbon and Environmental Goods and Services (LCEGS) report for 2011-12:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-carbon-and-environmental-goods-and-services-2011-to-2012</p><p>The report estimates that, in 2011-12, 17,846 people were employed in the renewable energy sector and its wider supply chain in the South West. Estimates based on this report show that between 2010-11 and 2011-12 there was no employment growth in this sector in the South West. Nominal sales growth in the same period was 6% across the renewable energy sector and its supply chain, broken down as follows: biomass (5%), geothermal (5%), hydro (3%), photovoltaic (6%), renewable energy general consultancy (3%), wave and tidal (5%) and wind (7%).</p><p>DECC has also estimated that, since 2010, £1,249 million of new private sector investment in renewable electricity has been announced with the potential to support 3,308 jobs in the South West of England:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/news/renewable-energy-delivering-green-jobs-growth-and-clean-energy</p> |