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Six Massachusetts job-training institutions will receive grant funding from the state to develop vocational programs in the cleantech sector.
The grants announced Tuesday total $1 million, bringing the total amount of green job-training grants awarded through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to $4 million. The recipients include Blackstone Valley Vocational Regional School District in Upton, Western New England College in Springfield, Bristol Community College in Fall River, Nuestras Raices in Holyoke, and UMass Boston and the Asian American Civic Association in Boston.
The grant winners were chosen from a pool of 38 applicants and will work with at least two clean energy companies each to develop curricula and instruction materials. While specific to each institution, programs will train high school and college students, low-income residents, workers in other trade industries and clean energy employers to perform tasks in energy-efficiency retrofitting, solar photovoltaic and heating system installation, wind energy, green building and clean energy policy fields.
The Clean Energy Center was created by the Green Jobs Act of 2008 to provide funding and support to grow the state’s cleantech employment base.
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