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WHITE HOUSE EMPHASIZES IBEW TRAINING, WORKERS IN EV NETWORK ROLLOUT

April 15, 2022
Agencies asked to consider IBEW-NECA Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training
Program as they look to spend billions in funds allocated by President Biden’s
infrastructure bill.
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The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers says it plans to be a major
part of the effort to get the workforce trained to handle demand for electrical
vehicle infrastructure.

New federal guidance for the creation of a national network of electric-powered
vehicle charging stations recommends agencies consider the IBEW-NECA Electric
Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program as they look to spend billions in funds
allocated by President Biden’s infrastructure bill, which passed last November.

“We’re pleased this guidance sets the foundation for the development of national
EV charging standards but, more importantly, that it recognizes the need for
quality training by specifically mentioning EVITP, which will help ensure the
creation of good, union jobs,” said International President Lonnie R.
Stephenson.

The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure guidance encourages jurisdictions
to consider workers’ experience and training when applying for a share of the
program’s funding. “This includes ensuring the workforce is trained in
high-quality training programs like the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training
Program (EVITP),” the guidance reads.

At the Feb. 10 press conference outside Department of Transportation
headquarters in Washington, D.C., several Biden administration officials
announced that nearly $5 billion will be made available under NEVI to all 50
states, plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, over the next 5 years to
help create the network along designated “Alternative Fuel Corridors.”



The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that there are already about 43,000
charging stations installed across the country. NEVI aims to add half a million
more stations over the next five to eight years, locating them strategically
near off-ramps and rest areas and no more than 50 miles from each other.

The specific mention of EVITP in the guidance, however, didn’t just happen in a
vacuum, said Government Affairs Department Director Danielle Eckert.

“There are other, proprietary training programs out there that are against EVITP
at all levels,” she said. Singling out EVITP, though, should help boost
jurisdictions’ interest in the program, she said, acknowledging the work of the
IBEW members who are helping to make sure officials understand EVITP’s quality.

“While interest and media attention in EVITP are currently ‘hot,’ electric
vehicle charging system training has been available from us for 10 years now,”
said Jason Lunardini, assistant director of the Electrical Training Alliance and
a member of Pittsburgh Local 5.

The training alliance oversees and develops curricula for the IBEW’s joint
apprenticeship training centers, and more than half of the roughly 270 inside
wiremen training centers in the U.S. are actively enrolling students for
electric vehicle charging system training programs with no signs of slowing
down, he said.

The roughly 18 hours of EVITP instruction, for example, covers a wide variety of
EV-related subjects, Lunardini said, such as vehicle history, design and
structure, not to mention the National Electric Code and the applications of
such considerations as load calculation methods and rules.

“JATCs have options for structuring classes to best support their needs and
provide training in the most efficient manner for them,” Lunardini said. “The
ETA has recently rolled out a training course that’s even designed to be
completely online and self-paced if needed.”



NEVI’s guidance promoting EVITP certification certainly “levels the playing
field, and it also gives us an advantage,” said Construction and Maintenance
Director Mike Richard. “Having that certification in hand will put our signatory
contractors in a better position to get this work,” he said.

Business managers should work hard on getting members registered for EVITP
certification now rather than waiting for bigger projects to come along, he
said, especially given the potential for hundreds of thousands more charger
installation and maintenance projects in the future, most of them privately
funded.

“One four-slot charger bay near a highway exit ramp or a rest area might not
seem like a big project,” Richard said, “a few days with a few workers at most,
a mix of IBEW and other trades. Our locals need to push our signatory
contractors to bid that work and make it part of their portfolios so they win
the next round of this work.”



“We need to continue to claim the work and that requires having a trained
workforce,” Lunardini agreed. “It’s easier to be prepared when there may not
seem to be a need than it is to get prepared when there is a need.”

The renewed interest in EV charging stations also puts pressure on the IBEW to
recruit nonunion electricians into the brotherhood, he said, and to open
opportunities to bring in more members as construction electricians and
construction wiremen. “All of this is a huge step in the right direction,” he
said.

The need for EV charging stations is growing rapidly. Some estimates say as many
as 18 million EVs will be in use by the end of this decade alone, propelled
forward by government regulations, but also by companies like GM and Ford, who
are staking their futures on EVs with highly anticipated vehicles like the new
Ford F-150 Lightning and GMC’s electric Hummer.

Biden promised throughout his 2020 presidential campaign that the IBEW would be
a major player in expanding the EV charging network. “Electrical workers, IBEW
members, installing 500,000 charging stations along our highways so we can own
the electric car market,” the president said at an event in Pittsburgh.



The Federal Highway Administration, which administers NEVI’s funds, is set to
announce grant approvals by Sept. 30. A second grant program designed to further
increase EV charging access in locations throughout the country, including in
rural and underserved communities, will be announced later this year, providing
the potential for even more work for IBEW members and signatory contractors.





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