The Energy Innovation Center Institute is an independent 501 (c) (3) organization whose mission is to help solve the world's most intractable problems by transforming how humans learn, work, and power ourselves in more sustainable and resilient ways.

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We are the program arm of the Energy Innovation Center and our charter places preeminence on helping those in the most vulnerable populations throughout the Appalachian Region

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We promote prosperity and break cycles of poverty by connecting the stranded talent in our regional disadvantaged communities to the highroad jobs around them.  

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In addition to our broader workforce focus, we founded the Infrastructure Academy in 2020 to design innovative and effective programing to recruit, vet, train and onboard people into the regulated utility and critical infrastructure industries. We work with over 20 employers in these industries to offer the most effective programming of its type anywhere.  Recently we began offering trainings for incumbent workers up-skilling, operator qualification, cyber security, and AI enabled skilled base work.  

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In the summer of 2025 we launched the process to build our first of its kind regional training facility that will offer innovative training for all utility, critical and digital infrastructure industries in on facility located in Southwestern Pennsylvania.  IT will serve as a national model to recruit, train and restore the American workforce. 

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We also have significant activities that advance the understanding, science, policy, and commercial application of technologies and system that help move the U.S. toward energy independence and restore our grid superiority. 

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