{"id":282351,"date":"2019-07-16T04:56:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T04:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282351"},"modified":"2019-07-16T05:01:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T05:01:03","slug":"indias-decentralised-renewables-workforce-to-double-by-2022-23-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-decentralised-renewables-workforce-to-double-by-2022-23-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s decentralised renewables workforce to double by 2022-23: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s decentralised renewable energy (DRE) sector&#8211;which generates, stores and distributes renewable energy locally&#8211;could employ nearly 100,000 more people by 2022-23, according to a new report. <\/p>\n<p>While most of these jobs are expected to be long-term, women constitute only a quarter of the workforce in this sector. With this addition, the DRE sector\u2019s workforce could double in size&#8211;from about 95,000 jobs in 2017-18 to 190,000 jobs by 2022-23&#8211;if the mini-grid market \u201ccontinues to expand at a rapid pace\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The number of informal jobs in the DRE sector is expected to remain stable at around 210,000, noted the first Powering Jobs Census 2019: The Energy Access Workforce report by Power For All, a coalition campaigning to scale DRE, released on July 15, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s decentralised renewable energy (DRE) sector&#8211;which generates, stores and distributes renewable energy locally&#8211;could employ nearly 100,000 more people by 2022-23, according to a new report. While most of these jobs are expected to be long-term, women constitute only a quarter of the workforce in this sector. With this addition, the DRE sector\u2019s workforce could double in size&#8211;from about 95,000 jobs in 2017-18 to 190,000 jobs by 2022-23&#8211;if the mini-grid market \u201ccontinues to expand at a rapid pace\u201d. The number of informal jobs in the DRE sector is expected to remain stable at around 210,000, noted the first Powering Jobs Census [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}