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Celebrating the Line Trade
 
Top of the Line
Edison International, in partnership with IBEW Local 47, has launched a new $1 million scholarship program to expand diversity in the line trade and train the next generation of lineworkers.
In the News
Aerial crew to help install new insulators along a 68-mile transmission corridor.
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Chicago and Rockford students spent seven weeks learning about trades careers in the clean energy transformation.
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The PSI curriculum for line employees requires two and a half days each week spent at Porecco College completing academic course work, with the remainder of the week spent at a Penelec training facility.
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The joint participation agreement will rebuild approximately 60 miles of the Parker-Davis Project transmission system.
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The partnership introduces around 130 students ages 16 to 25 in underserved communities to educational and career opportunities in clean energy.
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Safety and Training
How utilities can hold on to their best and brightest in ‘the Great Resignation.’
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Life on the Line
Crews replace historic steel lattice towers with weathered steel monopoles to improve reliability in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Cooperative CEOs discuss clean energy, grid automation, reliability and the biggest job since rural electrification – broadband internet