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Workforce Training Program OverviewReforming Electric Energy Systems
Curriculum WorkshopFebruary 4 and 5, 2011
Deborah ButerbaughEnergy Project Specialist
U.S. Department of EnergyNational Energy Technology Laboratory
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The Workforce Training Program Facilitates:
• Development of a trained and skilled workforce
• Implementation of a national clean-energy smart grid
• Providing the next generation of skilled technicians, engineers, and managers for the electric power industry
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Three Topic areas:
Topic A: Developing and Enhancing Workforce Training Programs for the Electric Power Sector
STEPS: Strategic Training and Education in Power Systems
Topic B: Smart Grid Workforce Training
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Topic A: Developing and Enhancing Workforce Training Programs:
• Provides new strategies and programs for industry.
• Addresses the entire electricity delivery system:
• Transmission• Distribution• Electrical equipment manufacturing
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STEPS: Strategic Training and Education in Power Systems
• Supports Colleges and Universities in developing new curricula.
• Addresses building, operating, and maintaining a modern electricity system.
• Courses target• Power electronics• Information and communications technologies• Policy• Economics
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Topic B: Smart Grid Workforce Training
• Targets power sector personnel directly related to smart grid.
• Increases workforce capacity and capability of electric power companies and smart grid technology manufacturers.
• Addresses skills shortages in a variety of power sector disciplines.
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Goals/Objectives:
• Raise awareness and interest in careers in electric utilities• Address predicted employment needs due to worker retirement• Provide training
• Demand energy response• Distributed Generation• Energy Utilization/Optimization• Cost Simulations
• Train professionals at all levels of utility hierarchy.• Promote excellence in electric power education and research.• Develop outreach activities to ignite public interest in smart
grid technology.
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Benefits:
• Up to 175,000 technicians, staff, and management positions filled with qualified personnel.
• Skilled workforce educated in energy conservation and renewable energy.
• Increased investment in advanced laboratory equipment, faculty development, and academic research.
• Increased skills and pay rates for technicians and displaced workers.
• Increased awareness of cyber security issues. • Support for the development of a technical class capable of
maintaining the next generation of smart grid technologies.
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Workforce Training Program Timeline:
• The solicitation was issued on 9/21/2009
• Agreements were awarded between April 2010 and September 30, 2010.
• All projects are not to exceed 3 years; making a targeted project end date of September 2013.
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Awards
Workforce Training Program Statistics:
Total Awards: 52 awards
Total Dollar Amount of Awards: $98,927,504
Topic A: 22 awards Totaling $13,849,875
Topic B: 19 awards totaling $54,820,263
STEPS: 11 awards totaling $27,646,317
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Workforce Development Training Projects
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Topic A and STEPS
Number of Projects in State1 2
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Topic B
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Overall Status
Overall Status:Phase 1:
• Completion of Benefits and Metrics Plan
• Completion of Project Management Plan.
Phase 2:
• Project Task Implementation
• As of the1/31/11, 45 of the 52 projects had proceeded to Phase 2.
• The project scopes and objectives vary and have unique milestones and
implementation schedules.
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My Contact Information:
Deborah J. ButerbaughProject Officer
National Energy Technology LaboratoryU.S. Department of Energy
304-285-4164 Office304-276-9940 Cell