Cleantech companies offering green jobs to people during pandemic
Green jobs are jobs that are focused and shaped around preserving and protecting the environment. These jobs can be from the conventional sectors like assembling and manufacturing, or in new, arising green areas like environmentally friendly power and energy productivity. As we all know the world has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and millions of people have lost their jobs throughout the world. In these tough times, there are cleantech companies that are not only offering jobs but are consistently thinking about a sustainable future by offering jobs in the green sector, be it energy or research, or recycling.
Oorjan
Oorjan is a startup firm that provides solar energy solutions to the customers, industrial sectors, and residential sectors, thus helping them save money along with doing good for society. It is one of the fastest-growing platforms for rooftop solar in India. The company has launched two major initiatives as a part of its program: Green jobs and Greenstitute in order to provide better and more suitable jobs and various certification courses. These projects are being handled by the team of IITs who are also creating awareness about solar power and are helping people to adopt Solar power. They are trying to bridge the gap of unemployment due to the pandemic along with promoting green life initiative. It connects the desired candidates with the company so that they get job opportunities and vaccination.
Greenway Grameen Infra Pvt Ltd:
Greenway Grameen Infra Pvt Ltd is one of the fastest-growing consumer appliance brands in India. Greenway was established with the primary goal of replacing traditional mud chulhas with 65% fuel savings and 70% smoke reduction, they work on most kinds of solid biomass fuels. Traditional mud chulhas are being used by at least 3 billion people in the world and it also contributes as much as 2% of the world’s GHG emission. They are constantly trying to develop better technology by investing a lot in research and development and offering a lot of jobs in the green sector. Most of the job opportunities are posted on LinkedIn and available for engineering and management students.
Enel Green Power
Enel Green Power is one of the major players in Green energy in India. Most of the energy generated in India is from Non-renewable sources such as coal and fossil fuels. India has been pushing towards the clean energy mission and Enel Green Power stands with India, they are helping India generate energy from renewable sources and help the country sustain its sustainable development. They have 4 power generation plants in India with a total capacity of 172 MW. Most of the plants are generating energy using Windmills and since India is one of the largest producers of Engineers and Management students across the globe, they keep offering opportunities in the renewable energy sector.
OLA Electric
Ola electric is helping India towards the future of mobility. Charging ahead to accelerate the transition to sustainable mobility. The initiative is quite new, and the company is looking for people who would work as their business development associates as well as leaders who could lead the company into a better future just like the company has envisioned. They keep posting several positions on LinkedIn and other job portals such as Monster India.