Up to 125 high school students are expected to participate next school year as a new Clean Energy Innovation Career Pathway launches to provide hands-on learning geared towards jobs in the renewable energy sector, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education said in a report this month.
With ambitious mid-century emission reduction targets on the books, Massachusetts wants to electrify heating and cooling, personal vehicle travel and more. But the state will need more than 30,000 new workers who can install heat pumps, prepare residential homes to charge electric vehicles, build offshore wind farms, and more to get there.
The 2022 climate and energy law required DESE and the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development to design and implement a pilot program that could connect students to academic and technical skills that will prepare them for jobs in the offshore wind industry that state official hope to grow here.
