$4.8M grant to aid training in solar industry

Efforts to train Arizonans for jobs in emerging renewable-energy industries will get a boost from a $4.8 million federal job-training grant announced Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Labor. The grant - part of $100 million in federal stimulus funding nationwide - was awarded to the Austin, Texas, Electrical Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee in part to provide immediate training for solar power plants under development in Texas.

The grant also will fund "capacity-building" efforts - consisting mainly of training for instructors - in Arizona, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and Texas. Gilbert Ferrales, training director for the Austin training committee, said application details for the "train-the-trainer" part of the grant work will be released later through local Workforce Investment Boards. The training will be geared toward work on large commercial-scale solar-energy projects and will start toward the end of this year, Ferrales said.

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