More ‘home grown’ engineers required to assist Australia’s renewable energy transition

Engineers Australia CEO Romilly Madew discusses the skill gap issue as Australia powers ahead with its transition to renewable energy. “We have capacity holes and we have a leaky pipeline when it comes to engineering,” Ms Madew told Sky News Business Editor Ross Greenwood. “What that means is we don’t have enough home grown born engineers to focus both on energy transition and all the other national priorities we have.” Ms Madew acknowledged that they will never fill the skills gap required but discussed the role technology and artificial intelligence plays in filling the gaps. “We need to be looking at not just the skills uplift in clean energy, it is also how does digital and technology fit and support and enable the clean energy transition we are going through,” she added.