The British Gas Green Skills Training Centre was officially opened in Tredegar South Wales today, announcing the company’s intention to train 1,300 people a year including local long term unemployed people.
The centre is the first of its kind in the UK and is developed in partnership with the Welsh Assembly Government, JobMatch, Jobcentre Plus, SummitSkills and Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council.
The state-of-the-art centre will offer training and qualifications for would-be energy efficiency assessors, installers of new green technologies as well as upskilling opportunities for British Gas engineers.
Gearóid Lane, Managing Director, Communities & New Energy, British Gas, said:
“This fantastic new facility is a blueprint for British Gas’ wider ambition to be the hub around which communities benefit from upskilling, green living and improvements in household comfort and energy affordability.
We are investing heavily in this rapidly growing sector through the creation of thousands of smart meter and insulation engineer jobs. But we also want to help equip local people with the skills to deliver these emerging technologies in the communities where they live.”
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1 medway college courses // Jul 20, 2010 at 2:23 pm
A move in the right direction from British Gas, having the foresight to include ‘green tecnologies’ amongst its training programme.