Jobs In Renewable Energy?

mufc4lfe

Hi I'm hoping to do a renewable energy course in IT.Tralee next year(if all turns out well wed).Will there be many jobs in this area in the future.What types of jobs are there in this department and are they financially rewarding?Thanks.

drunken_munky52

mufc4lfe wrote: »

Hi I'm hoping to do a renewable energy course in IT.Tralee next year(if all turns out well wed).Will there be many jobs in this area in the future.What types of jobs are there in this department and are they financially rewarding?Thanks.

www.lit.ie/DEPARTMENTS/ElectronicEng/LC781.html

Had an look at your course and compared to my one above, very different.

Judging by yours, you will be more inline with building energy management and BER. Currently, its mandatory for all houses changing hands to have BER cert, but this will be also the same for commericial and industrial building soon (big money and infinite work almost). With the law behind you, you will never have a day without work (I always see the positive and not the negative side of the downturn).

Vote yes to Lisbon if you want this type of work, because it enshrines climate change policies into law, thus creating more jobs. All engineers, its a call to arms!

PGL

a word of caution regarding BER certification - I have heard that there is a flood of BER assessors (and not all engineers I might add) out there making it a cut throat market - great for customers, not good for engineers etcbusiness with very low.

does anyone agree or disagree with this?

mckildare

PGL wrote: »

a word of caution regarding BER certification - I have heard that there is a flood of BER assessors (and not all engineers I might add) out there making it a cut throat market - great for customers, not good for engineers etcbusiness with very low.

does anyone agree or disagree with this?

Agree, To do the BER course is relatively easy and does not require an engineering degree (a term used very loosely these days I might add). A friend of mine who did it said its a sham and there was something on tv not too long ago showing the variation in assessments on the same properties proving that the cert is not fully legit.

As for the OP course, I think this area of the job sector will be as flooded as the IT sector so finding a decent job wont be as easy. Good luck with it!

Turbulent Bill

PGL wrote: »

a word of caution regarding BER certification - I have heard that there is a flood of BER assessors (and not all engineers I might add) out there making it a cut throat market - great for customers, not good for engineers etcbusiness with very low.

does anyone agree or disagree with this?

Precisely. A friend of mine (fully qualified mech eng with lots of heat transfer experience) was one of the first building energy assessors, well before the BER cert requirements and training came into place, and had lots of work in this area. Due to the number of assessors now the cost of the cert has been slashed (not a bad thing). However, I think the only requirement to be a BER assessor is to do a single training course, which is basic.

drunken_munky52

Turbulent Bill wrote: »

However, I think the only requirement to be a BER assessor is to do a single training course, which is basic.

Wrong. To register a BER cert, you need to upload it onto SEI's NAS database, which a BER accessor must pay €25 to SEI. The only way you can do that is to be a registered BER accessor with SEI. To be registered with SEI you need to pay a €2000 registration fee after passing the SEI BER accessor exam. To qualify to do the exam, you need to have got 70%+ in a BER training course.

SEI have decided to make it harder to become one becuase there are too may of them as you said.