Unleashing Clean Energy Skills
Today, four million people are employed in the energy sector in Southeast Asia – with 48% employed in clean energy and 52% employed in fossil fuels. However, this is changing rapidly. Fossil fuel employment shrunk by 1.5% in the region between 2019 and 2022, while clean energy jobs are growing by almost 4% a year.
But unlocking growth in clean energy skills will require new training programs and strategic partnerships between Government, training institutions and the private sector.
This is particularly important in Laos and Cambodia, where the clean energy skills ecosystem is still nascent and industries are still in their early stages.
To respond to this challenge, EnergyLab is delivering a program that strengthens Cambodia’s capacity to meet the growing employment needs of the clean energy industry while supporting progress toward the Kingdom’s NDC targets. With funding from the Liechtenstein Development Service (LED), which supports skills development globally, we are helping develop a better understanding of the clean energy skills landscape so that we can work with both the public and private sectors to forge the institutional structures, collaborations and policies that will be needed to unlock the opportunities of the clean energy transition.
Understanding Cambodia’s Electric Vehicles Skills needs
The Government has set ambitious targets to boost EV use across the country – over 750,000 electric motorbikes, cars, tuktuk and other transport by 2030.
EnergyLab has undertaken detailed research that shows there needs to be a significant increase in skilled workers to achieve this target and ensure the successful deployment of so many electric vehicles – with at least 15,000 EV assembly workers, engineers, technicians, service advisers and battery specialists required.
You can read the report here and read more about the report in this Khmer Times article.