The Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation (CARILEC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Anguilla Community College (ACC) to jointly certify Level 1 and 2 Linesmen Training.  Click here for more information.

 Ever's Electric Company, Inc., located in El Dorado, AR, selects T&D PowerSkills Hybrid Package: Instructor-led and Learning Management System, to help support their lineworker apprenticeship training program. Ever's Electric performs a variety of construction and maintenance jobs including industrial wiring, commercial wiring, pole line installation, electronic and pneumatic instrumentation, fiber optics, and data installations. 

Cleveland Community College, selects T&D PowerSkills Instructor-led courses to support their Electric Systems Technology program. Cleveland CC plans to offer this training as an entry-level electrical lineman program and is targeting about 300 hours of classroom and hands-on instruction.

Butler Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc., located in El Dorado, KS, selects T&D PowerSkills Learning Management System (LMS) to support their lineworker training program. Butler REC supplies electric power to 7,000 meters through 1,850 miles of transmission and distribution lines and owns 13 substations in the Butler, Chase, Cowley, Greenwood, Harvey, Marion and Sedgwick counties located in the Kansas state area.

The U.S. State Dept. has approved nearly $2 billion of high-voltage transmission lines that will bring low-cost Canadian renewable energy to the U.S. The department on Dec. 5 approved construction of the $1.2-billion New England Clean Power Link, between eastern Canada and Vermont, and last month green-lighted the $710-million Great Northern Transmission Line, between Manitoba and Minnnesota.

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