Illinois IBEW Renewable Energy Fund on LinkedIn: Extremely proud of our @prossercte solar graduates on their signing… (2024)

It’s summer solar season again! Here is an overview of Summer Solar 2023. Due to the overwhelming success of this program, we are pleased to announce the first ever Summer Evening solar class as a pathway to the IBEW 134 apprenticeship.

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IBEW REF Executive Director, Bob Hattier, sharing electrical & safety protocol with local fire departments in Alton with IBEW Local 649. .If your local fire department would like a safety training please reach out to the REF!.#safetyfirst#knowledgeispower.📸: IBEW REF team member @serspam

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If you’d like to learn more about Solar and join the solar workforce, please enroll in one of IBEW’s Renewable Energy Fund’s multiple training programs around the city of Chicago and Illinois. Available at @tritoncollege @morainevalley and various Chicago City Colleges. .The IBEW’s Renewable Energy Fund is a Training and Education non-profit organization focusing on workforce development and career pathways in the electrical construction industry. The REF serves historically underserved populations, environmental justice communities, foster care alums, and criminal justice-involved returning citizens. .#IBEW #iberref # renewableenergy #ibewrenewableenergyfund #solar #solarenergy #solarworkforce #solarfaq #solarfuture #solarjobs #ibewsolar #energytransition #workforcedevelopment

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The IBEW and @tritoncollege host the Renewable Energy Camp this summer!This is a great opportunity for a younger audience to explore the possibilities of solar energy presented in a creative way! Call or email AskCE@Triton.edu for registration!

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Happy #memorialday to all.

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NATIONAL SUNSCREEN DAY!.On this day, national sunscreen day, we honor this genius invention from the beaches of Australia! A public sunscreen dispensing device powered by the sun. A rather meta invention, the sun is powering protection from itself. A wise person once said "the sun is your energy, not your enemy" and this off grid application shows just that! All things in moderation is the message on this national sunscreen day!.photo by: @robynjmalcolm

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One of the IBEW’s Renewable Energy Fund’s instructors, Tylor O’Connor, demonstrating the effects of shading on solar energy in our Daley College Class this Spring. Thanks to our friends @jackeryusa for making a great classroom tool! .#IBEW #whatcanjackerypower#jackerystories

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Congrats @tritoncollege on 60 years!Honored to have our Renewable Energy Fund Instructor, Tylor O’Connor, featured on page 2, showing off the model Solar home!

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Happy Mothers Day!Today we honor all Mothers. Especially our very own Bea Thompson. Bea is a mother to two grown stepsons and was the only woman working at the Cook County Correctional Facility where she spent more than 20 years before becoming a business representative for the IBEW Local 134. If anything, being a Black woman in a male-dominated field has propelled her further into her career as she now paves the way for other women in the trades. “When I answered the call to become a business representative, I thought about the idea that no other Black woman had done it before for Local 134. I believe that I needed to move forward with becoming one because so many women had paved the way for me.”If it weren’t for other female leaders in the industry who came before her, Bea may have chosen a different path. Before joining the industry, she attended a Chicago Women in the Trades seminar and was inspired by what the electrician had to say. It was because of that talk that she applied for, and was accepted into, the electrical apprenticeship program. .Video taken from @poweringchicago.If you’d like to learn more about electricity or join the solar electrical workforce, please enroll in one of IBEW’s Renewable Energy Fund’s multiple training programs around the City of Chicago and Illinois. .The IBEW’s Renewable Energy Fund is a Training and Education non-profit organization focusing on workforce development and career pathways in the electrical construction industry. The REF serves historically underserved populations, environmental justice communities, foster care alums, and criminal justice-involved returning citizens. .#IBEW #solar #solarenergy #solarworkforce #solarfaq #solarfuture #solarjobs

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