NETL Regional Workforce Initiative (RWFI)
Tri-State Energy and Advanced Manufacturing Consortium and the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI)
Present:
“Predicting Future Regional and National Energy Workforce Needs”
10:00––11:30 AM, March 9th, 2021
What does the future hold for energy and advanced manufacturing jobs? The NETL Regional Workforce Initiative will host the TEAM consortium and the EFI in a joint webinar on March 9th from 10:00–11:30 AM, which will focus on challenges and opportunities in the regional energy and advanced manufacturing ecosystem in the short- and long-term future. Speakers from both TEAM and the EFI will present information on jobs data trends and analysis and regional workforce issues. The meeting will dive into what effect the COVID pandemic has had in job growth in the energy industry, while also highlighting approaches and activities meant to catalyze growth in energy and advanced manufacturing industries and promote workforce and economic development.
Meeting Presentations
- Introductions - Anthony Armaly, Strategic Partnerships, RWFI Federal Coordinator
- TEAM Consortium Presentation - Elizabeth McIntyre, Director, TEAM Consortium
- Energy Futures Initiative - David Foster, Distinguished Associate, Energy Futures Initiative
About the TEAM Consortium - The TEAM Consortium is supported by a dedicated group of regional partners across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, who are committed to building a skilled workforce for the tri-state are. The TEAM Consortium was formed to respond to the need for a properly trained workforce for these industries. TEAM brings together partners from industry, higher education, and workforce and economic development to build clear and accessible pathways to energy and manufacturing jobs in the region.
About the Energy Futures Initiative - EFI focuses on solutions that are effective, pragmatic, and acceptable to the broadest possible set of stakeholders. The EFI team and its global network of experts understand current energy markets, trends, and needs, and will apply this collective talent and knowledge to a range of policy questions, including: analyzing complex energy systems, providing public and private decision-makers with strategic insights, and integrating policy solutions and politically viable implementation pathways; advancing synergistic clean energy technologies and policies at home and around the world; convening industry, labor, policymakers, philanthropists, and NGOs to forge practical implementable climate change solutions; promoting strong communities and a 21st century energy workforce, with a focus on city, state, and regional innovation opportunities; and engaging global experts to advance broad and collective energy security goals and objectives.
About the NETL Regional Workforce Initiative (NETL RWFI)- The NETL RWFI is a platform for engagement and collaboration with stakeholders who are critical for the deployment of U.S. DOE and NETL Energy and Advanced Manufacturing technological research investments and breakthroughs by catalyzing these investments into economic development and workforce/job opportunities for the region and the nation. To date, NETL RWFI has engaged with nearly 700 regional and national individual stakeholders from 377 institutions and organizations across academic, industry, governmental, and non-governmental organizations. More than 250 individuals subscribe to the NETL Regional Workforce E-Note, a monthly email-based communication that provides regional stakeholders information about upcoming grant opportunities related to energy and advanced manufacturing innovation, workforce and economic development topics, and other resources. The NETL RWFI Energy 101 Webinar series has had over 1000 registrants to webinars that vary by topic, from providing energy jobs and workforce data and resources to explaining the energy and advanced manufacturing research occurring at NETL and the potential economic benefit of that research.