Tracking the Hunter's green job market, week by week
Week 30 · 2026-08-29 The boring project got approved, and it's the one that mattered The Hunter Transmission Project was approved this week. It's a 110km power line, the least interesting item in the pipeline, and the reason 2,125 megawatts of approved generation has anywhere to go. In the same week, renewable energy job ads hit their highest of the run. Week 26 · 2026-07-31 A new green sector just showed up in the Hunter, and it's the trades Energy efficiency ran at one or two job ads a week for five months. The last four weeks it has run at seven. Seven different employers, and the roles are HVAC techs and control systems engineers. Week 26 · 2026-07-29 Five months of Hunter green job ads: the gap I said was closing didn't Twenty six weekly scans since late February. 13,376 listings, 1,263 of them green. The digital skills gap I called closing in May went back to where it started, and the shape of the market turned out to be something else entirely. Week 13 · 2026-05-01 Month two of the Hunter green jobs tracker: what moved, what was noise A month after the first read on the Hunter's green job market, three things changed. The digital gap moved. The entry-level signal collapsed. Three new energy projects entered the planning pipeline. Week 10 · 2026-04-01 What does the Hunter's green economy actually look like in job ads? 4,500 listings. 10% green. 80% with no digital skills. Two months of watching the Hunter's job market, and three things stood out.