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Gamesa, Bucks college launch Green Jobs Academy program
Philadelphia Business Journal
June 28, 2010
Bucks County Community College and Gamesa
USA on Monday launched a program at the Green
Jobs Academy at the Bridge Business Center in
Bristol, Pa. to teach workers how to make, install and
operate wind turbines.
The academy will serve as the U.S. base of the
corporate university recently created by Gamesa
Corporación Tecnológica, Gamesa USA’s Spanish
parent. Gamesa employs 550 at two plants in
Pennsylvania, one near Bristol in Fairless Hills and
the other in Ebensburg near Johnstown.
The Green Jobs Academy has received $631,000 from
the Department of Energy to provide training for
workers in energy-efficiency retrofitting and
weatherization services.
Additionally, it has gotten $315,000 of American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act money through the
Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry for programs to train veterans for jobs
in renewable energy; pollution prevention and brownfield cleanup; and energy efficiency.
Other partners in the Green Jobs Academy include Drexel University, Peco
Energy Co., Lockheed Martin Corp., the Dow Chemical Co., the Rhodia
Group, AE Polysilicon Corp. and Y- Carbon Inc.
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