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National Commission on Energy Policy’s Task Force on America’s Future Energy

This report highlights the workforce demands and supply in the power sector, focusing on skilled construction, electric sector, and engineering jobs. It provides recommendations to align the workforce pipeline with future demands.

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National Commission on Energy Policy’s Task Force on America’s Future Energy

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  1. National Commission on Energy Policy’s Task Force on America’s Future Energy October 2009

  2. Agenda 2

  3. Overview of the Task Force on America’s Future Energy Jobs • Motivation • Many believe that the United States is facing a critical shortage of trained professionals to maintain the existing electric power system and to design, build, and operate the future system • Shortage has potential to jeopardize: • Reliability and cost effectiveness of current system • Ability to transition to a low carbon technology portfolio • Goals • To review the workforce impacts of a major domestic effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in power sector. Move beyond anecdotes on “green jobs” • To examine current labor market and workforce training mechanisms to assess the system’s capacity to meet this demand in a timely manner • To develop recommendations to help align the workforce pipeline with the anticipated workforce demand 3

  4. Overview of the Task Force on America’s Future Energy Jobs • Organization • Organized and staffed by the National Commission on Energy Policy with support from M. J. Bradley & Associates • 19 Participants representing labor organizations, electric power companies, and education and training organizations • 8 Advisors including industry trade groups, federal agency employees, educators, and EPC contractors • Timing • Convened three meetings between January and April 2009 • The final report will be released in mid- to late-September and will be available for download at http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/projects/national-commission-energy-policy 4

  5. Task Force Advisors Task Force Members Task Force Participants While the Task Force was convened by NCEP. The report and recommendations from the are the product of the participants and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Commission on Energy Policy. • Maryland State Superintendent of Schools • Staff of EPA and DOE • CEWD, EEI, NEI, U.S. Chamber of Commerce • Bechtel Power Corporation 5

  6. Report Highlights • Workforce Demand • Worked with participants and advisors to assess the potential workforce demands through 2030 across a broad range of categories • Focused on three main categories of worker: skilled craft construction, skilled craft electric sector, and engineers • Workforce Supply • Reviewed the institutions for technical training and the pathways to technical jobs • Indentified potential bottleneckswithin the system 6

  7. Workforce Demand: Spotlight on Design and Construction • Bechtel Power Corporation, one of the largest engineering procurement contractors in the world, lent their expertise to address data gaps surrounding construction jobs for the power sector • Analyzed the skilled and professional work force required to build 1 GW of generation for a variety of technologies (nuclear, conventional coal, conventional coal w/CCS, IGCC, IGCC w/CCS, natural gas combined cycle, onshore wind, solar thermal, solar PV) • Estimated the size of the work force required to build out technology portfolio in the EPRI Prism Analysis (2007), as well as two sensitivity cases based on the EPRI MERGE Modeling 7

  8. Nuclear Generation Workforce Building Block 8

  9. Estimated Workforce to Construct EPRI Prism 9

  10. Workforce Demand Summary 10

  11. Workforce Supply Pipeline 11

  12. Recommendations • Recommendation 1: Evaluate regional training needs and facilitate multi-stakeholder energy sector training programs across the country • Recommendation 2: Improve energy sector data collection and performance measurement metrics and tools • Recommendation 3: Identify training standards and best practices for energy sector jobs 12

  13. Recommendations • Recommendation 4: Provide funding support for individuals seeking energy sector-related training and education • Recommendation 5: Aggressively focus on revitalizing the math and science skills, education, and career counseling of individuals who have the interest and skills to work in the energy sector 13

  14. Next Steps • The final report will be released in October and will be available for download at http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/projects/national-commission-energy-policy • NCEP Task Force Staff • Sasha Mackler, Research Director • David Rosner, Senior Policy Analyst • Marika Tasutani, Writer and Technical Editor • For additional information contact: • Tom Curry, M. J. Bradley & Associates, tcurry@mjbradley.com • David Rosner, National Commission on Energy Policy, drosner@energycommission.org 14

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