Solar Energy International (SEI) has partnered with Nextpower (previously Nextracker) to increase SEI’s Empowerment Program scholarships, which broaden entry to photo voltaic vitality training and profession pathways for college kids from all backgrounds.
SEI’s aim is to coach a worldwide photo voltaic workforce and supply entry to renewable vitality training. Nextpower’s funding helps SEI take away monetary, geographic and private limitations that might stop aspiring photo voltaic professionals from coming into or advancing within the subject.
“We’re proud to proceed our partnership with SEI as a result of constructing the vitality infrastructure of the longer term begins with investing within the individuals who energy it,” stated Kristan Kirsh, SVP of worldwide advertising at Nextpower. “With over 30 years of expertise and greater than 100,000 people skilled globally, SEI has a confirmed monitor report of delivering outcomes. Their Empowerment Program isn’t nearly training — it’s about creating actual pathways to careers in clear vitality. This partnership helps our perception {that a} technically expert and mission-driven workforce is crucial to assembly the world’s rising demand for dependable, renewable energy.”
Along with tuition help, SEI’s Empowerment Packages provide individualized scholar counseling, mentorship, focused networking and guided connections to job alternatives. By means of this partnership, extra scholarships might be obtainable for SEI’s full catalog of on-line and hands-on programs, together with introductory photo voltaic fundamentals, superior system design, battery-based methods, grid-tied and off-grid applied sciences and Spanish-language pathways.
“Nextpower’s help elevates our means to achieve learners who in any other case might not have entry to life-changing coaching,” stated Kiera Coughlan, director of philanthropy at SEI. “By investing within the Empowerment Program, they’re investing in folks, in communities, and within the long-term power of the renewable vitality workforce.”
SEI’s Empowerment Program additionally consists of outreach and partnership efforts designed to increase renewable vitality coaching entry throughout the U.S. and internationally, specializing in offering alternatives for veterans and army members transitioning to civilian life, Tribal governments and utilities and rural workforce growth.
“Creating a various, expert renewable vitality workforce is crucial to assembly the world’s clear vitality targets,” Coughlan added. “Help from companions like Nextpower makes that imaginative and prescient attainable.”
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