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1 Smart Grid Workforce d kf Training and Education Training and Education Julie Julie Elzanati Elzanati Executive Director Executive Director Executive Director Executive Director Illinois Green Economy Network

2 Illinois Green Econom y Network • President-led consortium of all 48 id l d i f ll 8 Illinois community colleges. • Provides platform for collaboration to identify, establish, share best practices, and promote sustainability initiatives. p y • IGEN builds cooperative efforts among community college faculty, staff and y g y, students and our community partners to catalyze sustainability implementation and green economic implementation and green economic growth throughout the state.

3 IGEN Vision and Strategic Goals IGEN Vision and Strategic Goals To position the Illinois Community College System as a global leader in i i h lli i C i C ll S l b l l d i transforming education and the economy for a sustainable future. Green Curriculum Green Communities Green Campuses Green Careers M k Make sustainability a t i bilit Identify, develop and Provide assistance and Serve as regional and guiding principle for all expand quality green sector partners for training to Illinois institutional practices, job/career training for mobilizing community community college promote successful students and and employer faculty to integrate initiatives that reduce initiatives that reduce workers, effectively engagement, fostering sustainability and green energy use and the informed by community and economy content into community education, environmental impact at employer partnerships and supporting action for most disciplines and in campuses, and enable (balance demand/supply) environmental general education colleges to serve as sustainability b l programs sustainable demonstration sites for teaching and community engagement

4 Driving Green Econom ic g Developm ent in Illinois IGEN’s cooperative approach leverages the power of a sustainability network with the deep community connections of individual colleges and the innovative strength of businesses and industry to:  Expand deploym ent of clean energy technologies  Increase em ploym ent opportunities  Foster com m unity engagem ent  Foster com m unity engagem ent  Im prove hum an and environm ental health

5 NETWORK NETWORK IGEN colleges share lessons learned and best practices around sustainability and energy projects through open communication, ongoing cooperation and innovative partnerships

6 Com m unity College 1.65 MW Wind Turbine – Vestas 8.2 Heartland Heartland June 2012

7 Lake Land College  Goals:  Entire campus can be p taken off grid  Grid positive  How?  Campus diesel  Geothermal  Geothermal  Currently 4 kW PV  Installing 40kW PV  One 10 kW turbine  One 10 kW turbine  Two 100 kW turbines

8 L k L Lake Land College d C ll  Existing  Planned Curriculum Curriculum  Home  Building g automation automation  PV  Smart Grid  Wind Wind

9 Sm art Grid Cam pus at Lewis & Clark p

10 Illinois Green Career Pathways y Consortium • $ $19.4M FY12-FY14 Trade Adjustm ent Assistance d Adj A i Com m unity College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant from the US Departm ent of Labor • IGEN is one of 32 grantees nationwide • 17 colleges in IGEN consortium 7 g G • Create and deliver more than 30 online-hybrid green job • degree or certificate programs • Collaboration with business and industry partners, • universities and the Illinois Community College Board

11 Career Pathways Key Com ponents Career Pathways Key Com ponents • Online ‐ Hybrid Delivery  Department of Energy NTER System   C Combining classroom, interactive online, hands ‐ on, and industry bi i l i i li h d d i d partnerships • Adult Transition Service Centers   A Accelerating progress for low ‐ skilled and other workers l i f l kill d d h k • Business/Industry Advisory Councils Bring 21 st century skills into curriculum and provide hands ‐ on,  i internships and employment opportunities hi d l i i  Build programs that meet industry needs, including developing career pathways • • Embedded general education to enable accelerated Embedded general education to enable accelerated completion  Improve achievement rates  Reducing time to completion • Articulation Pathways  Partner with universities to develop articulation to four ‐ year institutions

12 Why Sm art Grid? Why Sm art Grid? If Alexander Graham Bell While Thomas Edison, one were somehow transported of the electric grid’s key t th to the 21st century, he t t h early architects, would be l hit t ld b would not recognize the totally familiar with the grid components of modern components of modern as it stands now as it stands now. telecommunications: – cell phones – texting – cell towers – PDAs, etc.

13 Why is Sm art Grid a Priority for y y Illinois Com m unity Colleges? • Illinois Smart Grid Legislation – Campuses as test/ demonstration facilities for business scale application • • Illinois community colleges collectively spend over $50M annually for Illinois community colleges collectively spend over $50M annually for electricity – Preventative action now to reduce overall energy usage will be less expensive than corrective action later i h i i l • RE and EV Interface • Opportunities for training new and incumbent workers Opportunities for training new and incumbent workers – Training on Smart Grid and not on the old system • Opportunities for community education (residents/ businesses) – Dashboard interface, smart appliances • 48 campuses in Illinois educate over 1 million people annually

14 IGEN Sm art Grid Initiatives IGEN Sm art Grid Initiatives  DoL TAACCCT Grant  DoL TAACCCT Grant  DCEO Renewable Energy  DCEO Renewable Energy Developm ent Grant  Smart Grid Certificate  RE installations and smart  Smart Grid Classroom @ Lewis & Clark grid training classrooms • Heartland  IGEN Sm art Grid Working  IGEN Sm art Grid Working • Illinois Central Illinois Central Group • John A Logan College • Kankakee  Certificate and Degree • Lake Land L k L d Program s • Richland • Southwestern Illinois  Com m unity Education

15 IGEN is a collaborative multi-college sustainability initiative i bili i i i i transforming how educational institutions, educational institutions businesses, government and community and community organizations partner together to produce new together to produce new pathways to green careers and drive green g economic development.

16 Contact Inform ation Contact Inform ation Illinois Green Economy Network www.igencc.org i Julie Elzanati Heartland Community College julie.elzanati@heartland.edu j @