Rising installations of solar and wind power mean efforts to shift workers from coal mines to renewable energy are speeding up. Follow us at @BloombergAU on Twitter and BloombergAsia on Facebook for the latest news and analysis. The sudden speed of the shift to clean power is forcing Australia, a global champion of coal and gas, to confront one of the energy industry’s biggest challenges — how to transition millions of fossil fuel workers to new roles in wind and solar. Clean energy could create more than 38 million jobs worldwide by the end of the decade and meeting that demand without a labor shortage requires accelerating efforts to not only lure new entrants, but also to create a clearer plan to retrain the industry’s veteran workforce as traditional fuel sources decline. A wind turbine training tower at Federation […]