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The Solar Training Standards Initiative positioning paper describes the case for standards and outlines the scope and assumptions behind this exciting collaborative project which brings GWO and the Global Solar Council (GSC) together to improve safety training in the renewables industry.
The 2023 Annual Report tells just a small part of the global story created by the many people from our members to the individual technicians who together work towards a safer workplace while also delivering on global energy goals.
This GWO Positioning Paper provides an introduction to the key ambitions and terms of reference for a proposed expansion in opportunities to use a merit approach to safety & technical training in the wind industry
The GWO Training Digitalisation Project, aims to position our output at the forefront of digital transformation in training standards. It follows closely behind initiatives such as the European Union’s Skills Agenda, which emphasises the value of investments in lifelong learning and bolstering competitiveness in the digital era.
The latest GWO North American Market Briefing forecasts high growth of the wind industry and the associated need for more standardised training.
The latest Global Wind Workforce Outlook (GWWO) 2023-2027 has been released by Global Wind Organisation (GWO) and Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). The Outlook details the massive growth in numbers of wind technicians required to meet forecast construction, installation, operation, and maintenance (C&I and O&M) of the world’s wind fleet up to 2027.
The South-East Europe regional market for wind training is a microcosm of how neighbouring territories experience different patterns of growth and opportunities
Expanding Your GWO Training Portfolio Will Help You Deliver More Training and Enhance Your Customers’ Value - Market Briefing 2023
The 2021 Annual Report tells just a small part of the global story created by the many people from our members to the individual technicians who together work towards a safer workplace while also delivering on global energy goals.
2021 only emphasised the strengths of the GWO community. The total numbers of individuals taking GWO training increasing by over 20% to more than 80,000 individuals, who during 2021 received in excess of 316,000 training certificates, delivered by more than 440 training centres in over 45 countries and territories. All these figures are all time highs.
Safety matters. That is why GWO was created in 2012, as a non-profit organisation formed by the largest wind turbine manufacturers and owners. Together, they introduced standards such as Basic Safety Training (BST) to ensure a baseline of competence in the industry. There should be no doubt that the standards GWO has introduced since its foundation have met the challenge to produce a framework for training that is specific to a wind energy environment. This has been confirmed by the rapidly growing network of training providers around the world, certified according to GWO Requirements. A network that is also providing affordable training to match the needs of the wind energy sector.
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The Global Wind Workforce Outlook 2021-2025 finds that we will need at least 280,000 more trained workers to install the forecast 490 GW of new wind power capacity coming online over the next five years. Of the 480,000 GWO trained workers required worldwide, 308,000 will be deployed to construct and maintain onshore wind projects and 172,000 are needed for offshore wind.
2020 has proved the resilience of our industry, and of our training provider community. Despite pandemic and lock-down, wind power installations as well as GWO safety training have increased year on year, the latter by +10%. By the end of 2020, we also passed a significant milestone with more than 100,000 people now holding a current GWO training.
The GWO half year report reviews activity across the network for the period January 1 2020-June 30 2020
Learning objectives in GWO standards are focused in the domains of "knowledge" and "skill". How often you refresh your training to maintain that knowledge and skill depends on a huge variety of factors.
GWEC and GWO have published the report Powering the Future: Global Offshore Wind Workforce Outlook 2020-2024 as the first deliverable of the partnership between the two global associations.
The GWO Annual Report 2019 - Safety Without Borders, represents the next step in the evolution of Global Wind Organisation. In addition to comprehensive reports on the performance of our worldwide training network, the document also details GWO members’ long-term ambitions in the form of a three-year strategy, created to more than double the size of the GWO Trained Workforce.
GWO training aims to achieve learning objectives using a standardised curriculum
The Global Wind Organisation Annual Report 2019 was published on 12th September 2019. It includes information on the growth in numbers of people trained to GWO standard in wind energy, as well as the increasing number of certified training providers around the world.
The Global Wind Organisation Annual Report 2018 was published on 20th February 2019. It includes information on the growth in numbers of people trained to GWO standard in wind energy, as well as the increasing number of certified training providers around the world.
