Solar Energy International (SEI) has partnered with Nextpower (previously Nextracker) to broaden SEI’s Empowerment Program scholarships, which broaden entry to photo voltaic vitality schooling and profession pathways for college kids from all backgrounds.
SEI’s objective is to coach a world photo voltaic workforce and supply entry to renewable vitality schooling. Nextpower’s funding helps SEI take away monetary, geographic and private boundaries that might stop aspiring photo voltaic professionals from getting into or advancing within the discipline.
“We’re proud to proceed our partnership with SEI as a result of constructing the vitality infrastructure of the long run begins with investing within the individuals who energy it,” stated Kristan Kirsh, SVP of worldwide advertising and marketing at Nextpower. “With over 30 years of expertise and greater than 100,000 people skilled globally, SEI has a confirmed observe file of delivering outcomes. Their Empowerment Program isn’t nearly schooling — 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 important to assembly the world’s rising demand for dependable, renewable energy.”
Along with tuition assist, SEI’s Empowerment Packages provide individualized scholar counseling, mentorship, focused networking and guided connections to job alternatives. Via this partnership, extra scholarships can 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 assist elevates our skill 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 energy of the renewable vitality workforce.”
SEI’s Empowerment Program additionally contains outreach and partnership efforts designed to broaden renewable vitality coaching entry throughout the U.S. and internationally, specializing in offering alternatives for veterans and navy members transitioning to civilian life, Tribal governments and utilities and rural workforce improvement.
“Creating a various, expert renewable vitality workforce is important to assembly the world’s clear vitality objectives,” Coughlan added. “Help from companions like Nextpower makes that imaginative and prescient potential.”
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