Green energy 'creates more jobs than fossil fuels', study says

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Investing in renewables adds half a job per gigawatt hour of electricity generated, report claims, with around 10 jobs created for every £1m invested

New renewable energy projects create 10 times more green jobs than similar-sized fossil fuel investments, new research has found. A study by the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) taking data from the...

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