Energy Efficiency Services Sector: Workforce Education and Training Needs

Authors examined workforce education and training needs for jobs in the Energy Efficiency Services Sector (EESS), focusing on jobs required to improve the efficiency of residential and non-residential buildings. The report contains an overview of the sector and methods for assessing EESS education and training programs, profiles of current workforce development efforts, and a discussion of trends for meeting demand for energy efficiency education and training programs. (Abstractor: Website Staff)

The authors recommended six actions: • “Provide energy efficiency education and support targeted at building and construction contracting and tradespeople” (p. xvi). • “Coordinate and track training efforts within states; share best practices across states” (p. xvii). • “Increase short-duration, applied trainings to augment on-the-job training and/or introduce new entrants to a field” (p. xvii). • “Increase funding to ‘train the trainer’” (p. xvii). • “Increase access to on-the-job training for mid- and senior-level engineers and managers” (p. xviii). • “Prepare the next generation of EESS professionals” (p. xvii). (Abstractor: Author)

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• Resource Publication Date: 2010
• Author(s): Goldman, Charles A.; Peters, Jane S.; Albers, Nathaniel; Stuart, Elizabeth;et al.
• Organizational Author(s): Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Research Into Action, Inc.
• Resource Availability: Publicly available
• Posted by: Wesley Peterson
• Posted in: Workforce System Strategies