Workforce

A sufficient workforce of individuals with the skills and experience required to design, manufacture, construct, operate, and maintain coal EGUs is a critical component of industry capability. Some aspects of workforce issues were addressed in Chapter Four in the context of some segments of the mark...

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Published inCharacterizing the U.S. Industrial Base for Coal-Powered Electricity p. 63
Main Authors Constantine Samaras, Jeffrey A. Drezner, Henry H. Willis, Evan Bloom
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published RAND Corporation 31.10.2011
Subjects
Applied sciences
Business
Civil engineering
Coal
Coal fired power plants
Economic disciplines
Economics
Electric power facilities
Electric power industry
Electric power plants
Electric utility industry
Electricity
Electromagnetism
Employment
Energy engineering
Energy industry
Engineering
Fossil fuels
Fuels
Fundamental forces
Industrial engineering
Industrial machinery
Industrial sectors
Industry
Labor
Labor economics
Manufacturing industries
Physical sciences
Physics
Public sector industries
Public utilities
Skilled labor
Workforce
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Summary:A sufficient workforce of individuals with the skills and experience required to design, manufacture, construct, operate, and maintain coal EGUs is a critical component of industry capability. Some aspects of workforce issues were addressed in Chapter Four in the context of some segments of the market. But there are also more-general workforce issues that warrant a separate discussion. There has been a series of reports examining the energy-related workforce, motivated in part by the perception that the current workforce is aging, a significant portion of the workforce will retire in the near future, and fewer new hires are available to
ISBN:0833059181
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