The UK will fail to achieve a “just and fair” transition by 2030 unless there is urgent alignment across the political spectrum to sustain offshore energy industry jobs and investment, a study has found. Experts at Robert Gordon University analysed more than 6,560 pathways for the industry between now and 2030, concluding that political decisions rather than market forces will influence the size of the workforce. Of the thousands of scenarios analysed, less than 0.3% could be considered a “just and fair” transition, their report found. Professor Paul de Leeuw said Scotland would be disproportionately impacted with changes in the offshore workforce and supply chain, as a high number of offshore jobs are concentrated around Aberdeen. Underlining the scale of the challenge, he said that in order for the workforce to be sustained at current levels of just over 150,000 in 2030, the installation of new offshore turbines would need to increase to roughly one per day. In addition, the UK would need to continue extracting around 500,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. The total installed capacity of offshore wind generation would need to increase to around 40GW, up from 15GW at the end of 2023. Oil and gas...