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The wind industry promises attractive salaries. But a lack of training programs and waning political support make it difficult to find new recruits.
New College Institute wants to take the lead in building the state’s wind energy workforce. In January, the Martinsville higher education center became the first site in Virginia to offer wind ...
Avangrid’s National Training Center in Sherman County, Oregon, was built this summer and just worked with its first set of technicians.
A Vancouver school is launching wind turbine technicians into a green energy gig that's in growing demand.
In addition, the program might not be limited to only wind energy turbines. Luft said COT may consider integrating training in solar and other alternative energy sources into one program.
Wind energy employers see TSTC as an example of the training they would like their incoming technicians to have. But the school is alone in the kind of training it offers at its campuses in ...
The school has provided wind turbine technician training at its Norfolk campus since 2020. The curriculum is tailored to prepare technicians for the budding wind energy industry in Hampton Roads.
The Universal Technical Institute in Rancho Cucamonga will provide hands-on skills to train badly needed renewable energy technicians.
A group of seven Wind Turbine Service Technicians from Nordex Energy South Africa (NESA) has returned from a month long intensive international training programme at the Nordex Academy in Turkey—an ...
By Sneha Dey, The Texas Tribune “ Texas wind energy firms need more technicians. Can they drum up student interest without state support? ” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a ...