Further confirming Fife's Energy Park as a leader in wind energy technology, a plan to initiate 150 apprenticeships in green energy at a cost of £62,000 a year has been announced today.
Carbon Free Developments, in association with Adam Smith College, will fund six places annually. The scheme will be operated in association with a new nine-turbine farm, on a former open-cast coal mine site at Earlseat. If approved, the wind farm is expected to have an installed capacity of 20.7MW, which could power up to 11,000 homes.
The apprenticeships will be open to school leavers and those who are unemployed or need to retrain.
This year Scottish Enterprise earmarked Fife's Energy Park as one of 11 hubs to benefit from investment in offshore wind turbine manufacturing.
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