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Correction:

The number of technicians are only 15,000.  I got a little happy with the number of zeros.

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Columbia Gorge Community CollegeThere is an initiative called 20/20.  It means 20% renewable energy by 2020.  For wind, which is leading the renewable energy field st this time, that means a sizeable increase in the number of wind turbines that will be constructed over the US.  The projection is for 300GW of installed wind power by 2020.  This equated to around 150,000 technicians between now and 2020.  We produce about 100 to 200 technicians per year.  Other colleges and some from the military will have to make up the difference.

Columbia Gorge Community College is one of the leaders in training at this time.  The program is maturing faster then most because of wind company involvement and donations of turbine parts and also $$ donations.

To be correct, Columbia Gorge Community College is preparing students for a career in power generation, industrial electronics, and also wind power.  We felt that we should give the students more then just an education in wind power, we decided to give them a skill that could be used in many industries.  Electronics is the basis for control of almost all power generation.  The other part of the program is in hydraulics and mechanics.

Tom

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