Renewable sector has potential to employ 10 lakh individuals by 2030: IREDA

New Delhi: The country’s renewable energy sector has potential to employ 10 lakh individuals by 2030, IREDA Chairman & Managing Director Pradip Kumar Das said on Tuesday.

“India’s Renewable Energy (RE) sector could potentially employ around 10 lakh people by 2030, which would be ten times more than the existing workforce of an estimated 1.1 lakh employed by the sector,” he said delivering the keynote address at an event on Renewable Energy Management for Cooperatives.