CEWD encourages industry stakeholders to meet with their local, state, and federal policymakers to ensure that workforce development needs, opportunities, and challenges are understood and being considered in priorities associated with the sector. When it comes to workforce policy, it is essential that the energy industry has a united voice to ensure our message is carried far and wide.
Last fall, CEWD hosted the inaugural Energy Careers on the Hill Day, bringing information and education to several Congressional offices and federal agencies. Industry leaders 1) provided data on expected industry hiring and training needs; 2) explained the historic training support that will be needed to prepare the workforce for evolving energy careers; 3) emphasized the importance of support for national and state workforce intermediaries; 4) sought guidance on the most effective ways to utilize opportunities created from the new Energy and Natural Resources Career Cluster; and 5) discussed sector-wide workforce development strategies.
Joyce Cooper of Omaha Public Power District meets with Congressman Don Bacon.
In 2025, CEWD will modernize these goals and host the second Energy Careers on the Hill Day. Contact [email protected] to stay connected.
If you are interested in learning more about policies that impact the development of the energy workforce, find information from CEWDs here. If you are a CEWD Member and are interested in staying more engaged with energy workforce policy, join our Energy Workforce Policy Education Group. Please contact [email protected] to join.
Note: CEWD does not engage in any lobbying activities.
CEWD focuses on educating and informing those who impact the policies, practices, and people associated with developing the energy workforce at the national level, and we encourage industry leaders to tailor and use the resources below to educate and inform their policy makers as well.
- Powering Lives. Powering Futures (overview of energy workforce development)
- Energy and Natural Resources Career Cluster
- Workforce White Paper
- CEWD 2024 Annual Report
- Get Into Energy, Parents
- Get Into Energy Myths and Misperceptions