By: Joe Salimando – www.eleblog.com
The Department of Labor released nearly $100 million in Energy Training Partnership grants in the first week of 2010, in the form of 25 awards – ranging in size, the DOL said, from $1.4M to $5M each.
NECA-IBEW organizations were among the recipients. The funding for this came from the Obama stimulus package.
See this DOL release, which has a small amount of verbiage and a large table (on the webpage) delineating a limited amount of details about who got the $, and what each group plans to do with it.
Fuller details are available in a 26-page PDF DOL released at the same time.
A report on the IBEW site claims that grant awards in which the electrical workers’ union is involved will obtain more than $20M.