Germany seeks Indian workers to help build solar power plants amid labor shortage

Targeted migration of skilled workers from India could help Germany meet its solar power expansion targets, which call for installed capacity to reach 215 GW by 2030. The shortage of skilled workers is affecting not only the solar sector, but virtually every industry involved in the energy transition. The report was published by the international news outlet Clean Energy Wire.

The shortage of skilled workers is considered one of the biggest challenges to meeting Germany’s ambitious targets for renewable energy expansion and other areas related to the country’s energy transition.

A recent report by the German Economic Institute (Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln) estimated that Germany is short of more than 200,000 skilled workers needed to successfully implement its energy transition.

The German government has therefore decided to act. After approving a new employment strategy in October to help businesses attract skilled workers, it announced in December that it would amend immigration law to help fill vacancies with workers from abroad.