UBEC's Utility Workforce Planning Network

To meet its overall organizational objectives, UBEC has joined with the electric and natural gas industry to create the Utility Workforce Planning Network. A key task of the Network is to develop Centers of Excellence model partnerships with community colleges, high schools and workforce investment boards to develop utility industry training programs focused on the industry's growing need for skilled and craft labor. Current members of the Network include:

Utilities Alliant Energy Corp. American Electric Power American Transmission Company Ameren Corp. Avista Corp. Bonneville Power authority CenterPoint Energy, Inc. Cinergy Cleco Corp. Cobb Energy Management Cross Country Energy Dominion Resources DPL, Inc. DTE Energy Duke Power El Paso Electric Empire District Electric Company Energen, Inc. Energy West, Inc. Entergy Corp. Equitable Resources, Inc. Exelon Florida Power & Light Company FPL Group Hawaiian Electric Company Kansas City Power & Light KeySpan Laclede Gas Company

Montana Dakota Utilities Company National Grid USA Nicor, Inc. North Western Energy Northeast Utilities NSTAR Okaloosa Gas District Pacific Gas & Electric Company Peoples Energy PNM Resources Inc. PPL, Inc. Progress Energy Inc. PSEG Services Corp. Puget Energy Southern Company Tennessee Valley authority TXU Power UGI Utilities, Inc. Vectren Corporation Xcel Energy Westar Energy WPS Resources Corporation Associations and Organizations American Gas Association American Public Gas Association American Public Power Association Edison Electric Institute Nuclear Energy Institute