Wind developers on campus today to discuss job training

Wind developers will meet on the campus of MSU-Great Falls College of Technology today to talk about job training, the college said. The developers make up the Industry Advisory Board of MSU-Great Falls' Wind Montana Project, an initiative to develop training programs in industrial and energy technology with the focus on wind. The college received a $2 million federal grant to develop training courses.

Technician training programs will be located at four Montana University System campuses: Great Falls, Billings, Havre and Butte. The first, a one-year certificate of applied science in energy technology, is being offered this fall at MSU-Northern and at Montana Tech.

The Industry Advisory Board consists of 19 companies with a vested interest in energy and wind in Montana:

IngeteamUSA, Gaelectric North America, Montana Dakota Utilities, NorthWestern Energy, Endurance Wind Power, Invenergy, General Electric, PPL Montana, NaturEnerUSA, Fuhrlander North America, Tonbridge Power Montana/Alberta Tie Ltd, Grasslands Renewable Energy, LLC, Pascoe Energy, Oversight Resources, LLC, Exergy Development Group, LLC TransCanada Corp., John Deere Wind Energy, Sansur Renewable Energy, Inc. and Chapin LLC.