A new investment project in the Midlands has send energy sector contractors scrambling to prepare as demand levels are expected to skyrocket in the immediate future.
Nottingham City Council recently announced it’s setting up an Energy Tariff in the hopes that doing so will lower energy network costs and attract more businesses to the region. The only thing standing in the way of the city council’s plans at this point is an alliance with an energy provider that has an interest in expanding both standard power resources and green technology as well, with the hopes being that umbrella service contractors will be in higher demand if construction starts on new power plants.
Keeping your carbon footprint as small as possible has become all the rage lately across a wide variety of business sectors, and it’s got plenty of benefits over and above a nice, warm feeling that you get from knowing that you’re not contributing to climate change. Lowering the UK’s dependence on foreign fossil fuels is an important issue, and investment in new green power generation technologies can lead to the country to throw off the yoke of OPEC, but the best reason to focus on green energy is because the construction and maintenance of these systems, whether they be solar arrays or offshore wind and wave farms, means jobs.
Most of these jobs are likely to be contract positions at first, especially as the economic landscape has made employers reticent to hire on permanent workers so they can control their costs as the eurozone crisis continues to rage on. This means that freelancers and contractors with experience in the energy industry, either working on their own or through umbrella companies, are in the perfect position to pick up extra work, and the infusion of cash into the hands of contractors could help to turn around the economy here at home.
