WHO WE ARE
The Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD) is a national, non-profit intermediary that unites employers, labor, educators, non-profits and associations, community-based organizations, workforce systems and other stakeholders to prioritize solutions that will ensure the industry is people-ready for the energy transition. We are committed to uniting energy stakeholders in attracting and developing a highly skilled workforce.
Formed in 2006, CEWD is the only national, neutral, cross-sector energy workforce intermediary, CEWD convenes the industry’s most influential voices to identify critical needs and drive practical solutions. In addition to supporting 140 energy companies, CEWD serves as the workforce development arm for the Association of Energy Services Professionals, American Gas Association, American Petroleum Institute, American Public Gas Association, American Public Power Association, Clean Power Institute, Distribution Contractors Association, Edison Electric Institute, Electric Power Research Institute, INGAA Foundation, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, and the Nuclear Energy Institute.
We represent the diverse interests of the entire energy sector and serve as the first stop for information, collaboration, leadership, and resources for workforce planning, recruitment, development and retention.
A thriving energy workforce powering our nation.
- Career awareness and promotion — Raising awareness, inspiring interest and attracting new candidates to energy careers through targeted outreach and engagement.
- Leadership for workforce development — Serving as the leading resource for tools and strategies to help develop and retain the industry’s talent pipeline.
- CEWD member success — Enhancing member value through high-impact services, leadership opportunities and collaboration.
We BELIEVE
- Sector solutions, that is – addressing workforce development priorities in a united fashion, is essential. Language and actions that pit industries within the sector against one another are not helpful or constructive to the career seekers we hope to influence.
- Effective workforce development initiatives and solutions must involve – and in many cases, be driven by – employers, though effective resolution to the historic needs before us requires collaboration in unprecedented ways with educators, community-based organizations, philanthropies, non-profits, and others.
- Effectively responding to the historic hiring and training needs before us will take innovative, bold, collaborative action – much of which should be coordinated at the national level for adoption in local markets, where workforce development must take place.
- Good quality jobs are essential within the industry’s workforce.
- CEWD is uniquely positioned to unite and lead the sector’s workforce strategies. It has been doing so for utilities since 2006 and has recently taken steps to expand its membership base to bring more of the industry’s employers and stakeholders together to collaborate on workforce development programs.
