what is the earning potential for an engineer with a masters in renewable energy?

Answer 1

Depending on how innovative and resourceful he is... unlimited. If he has to come here to ask, I would say... poor.

Answer 2

Peanuts. Change over to selling it.
Renewable is the biggest con' in history.
The U.K.s input is a flea on an elephants back where the herd is running wild into an abyss.
What sort of Engineer are you when you can't stop today's pollution or indeed use current solutions without trying to invent new ones.
CO2 can be neutralised at source and you know it.
Tidal Power is the most efficient and you know that too.

The whole subject is a sop to make the ignorant think that something is being done about it.
Blair spouts on about light bulbs when less than half the trucks on the road would be needed if producers were limited to shipping the product instead of space.
So engineer, on the subject of light bulbs?
Improve the poor Power Factor and reduce Watt-less current while cutting out 15% of power stations.
Now we are engineering.
Ah, we would have to increase the cost.
Really????
What a life.
You could convince people that a Meccano Set is High Tech today it seems.

Answer 3

Probably not as much as it should be at the moment but you should think long term.

Having worked on The Sustainable Development Agenda a few years ago I know the topic is far from new. Now it seems to be gathering pace and we even have organisations looking at green energy for data centres.

As far as earnings potential it will probably be more beneficial in countries like Sweden but if Arnie schwartz' is campaign gets of The ground the USA may yet again be the fertile land for well educated engineers and scientists.

At a guess I would say right job in UK once you have gained experience and mileage on your CV -£40K pa at the moment

But do the research contact employment agencies that deal with engineers - Telegraph but I cannot remember which day.