More skills and expertise are needed in the area of renewable energy, according to industry experts.
According to The Renewable Energy Centre.co.uk, there needs to be improvements in skills in the development or commission of technologies.
The comments come after Ed Miliband, the secretary of state for the Department of Energy and Climate Change, announced that there would be an extra £20 million of government funding made available for new clean technologies.
According to the department, the allocation announced this week was the latest instalment of £405 million announced in the Budget for low carbon.
Angela Gallacher from The Renewable Energy Centre.co.uk, said that there was still a long way to go to harness the full potential of renewable energy, but added: "Ongoing development into renewable energy technology will only serve to increase the skills needed to move the sector forward."
She stated that there was now a whole new set of job fields and that it was essential that those were filled by the up-and-coming generations.
Is there good enough management of the renewable energy sector?
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I'm all for growing renewables but it is still going to be a very small part of our energy provision portfolio for a long time ahead. We need more strategic thinking and not short termism.
Could not agree more though they are many graduates in this sector there is a lack of aged experienced people.
It's a minefield really. So much of renewable development is wound up in politics, which creates a generation of renewable managers that are as atuned to political wrangling as they are to market forces. We've seen this with privatized companies that when they leave the comforting embrace of the government they are ill equipped to survive the rigours of the marketplace. I wonder how renewable companies will survive without subsidised markets etc.