One of the barriers to achieve the expected renewable energy market development is the shortage of qualified human resources. Global data on education and training on renewable energies was analyzed in order to gain an understanding of the current education supply worldwide. Findings are: (i) the shortage is more acute in developing countries; (ii) there is a mismatch between education system offer and industry demand; (iii) there is also a mismatch in the suitability of the curricula; (iv) students and educators are moving towards online training for collaborating and learning. While it remains a challenge to increase, improve, and facilitate access to renewable energy education and training, the high interest of females in renewable energy education represents an opportunity to counter the scarcity of professionals in the sector. Authors would like to thank Mats Marquardt for his editing work and improvement proposals. The work is partially funded by the Spanish government (ENE2015-64117-C5-1-R (MINECO/FEDER)). Prof. Cabeza would like to thank the Catalan Government for the quality accreditation given to her research group GREiA (2017 SGR 1537). GREA is a certified agent TECNIO in the category of technology developers from the Government of Catalonia.