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Episode 3: From oil & gas worker to renewable energy instructor
By Devin Keats and Don Hill - Iron and Earth, March 6, 2023
Devin Keats was an oil and gas worker and earning a good salary. However he was working in a camp away from home and always wondering when the next layoff was coming. Like the majority of fossil fuel workers Iron & Earth and Abacus polled in 2021, he knew he was ready for a change.
As a Red Seal electrician he had some options and headed back to Newfoundland and Labrador and learned how to install solar panels. The rest as the old expression goes, is history, because now Devin is working full time in renewable energy where salaries are comparable to or higher than average salaries in Canada. Devin was also an instructor on our solar power installation last year in Hopedale and Rigolet in Nunatsiavut on the North Coast of Labrador.
It was a tiny solar charger he had several years ago that led to the realization that there was a future for him in the renewable energy sector close to home and not part of the boom-and-bust cycle. He talked with freelance broadcaster Don Hill about his transition and his thoughts about the future of renewable power in episode 3 of our Renewable Conversations with Iron & Earth.
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