https://electrek.co/2023/07/07/fossil-fuel-power-plant-ravenswood/
"Labor union members at New York’s Ravenswood Generating Station will become
the US’s first fossil fuel power plant workers to transition to operating
offshore wind equipment.
Ravenswood is a 2,480-megawatt (MW) power plant in Long Island City, Queens,
across from Roosevelt Island.
Powering 20% of the city, it’s New York City’s largest fossil-fuel plant, and
its fossil fuel generation is going to be replaced with 1,400 MW of offshore
wind power.
The 27-acre waterfront oil and gas industrial site will be converted into a
clean energy hub that will power one-fifth of New York City – and it needs a
skilled workforce to run it.
So its owners, Attentive Energy One (AE1), a joint venture between
TotalEnergies and Rise Light & Power, recently made an agreement with Utility
Workers Union of America Local 1-2 (UWUA Local 1-2) to retain, retrain, and
upskill Ravenswood’s plant workers.
Upon award of a contract, AE1 will launch a training program with UWUA Local
1-2 that will ensure workers can smoothly transition to work on new renewable
energy equipment and an operations & maintenance hub that will support up to 3
GW of offshore wind.
The Ravenswood Training Center, a National Center for Construction Education
and Research (NCCER)-accredited training sponsor and assessment center, will
retrain the power plant’s union members with a new renewable energy and
maritime operations curriculum."
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
