Source of skilled people to do all of those energy retrofits

Grumpy Voter's comment on my last post deserves a response in a separate post.

I'd like to let you know about a program called the,
"Energy Systems Engineering Technician and Technologist" program at our local community college in Kingston, Ontario: St. Lawrence College.

Students in this program are trained in areas like energy audits, building insulation, renewable energy equipment, environmental impacts and life-cycle analysis. They just graduated their first class this past year and every student got a job in the energy field (talk about green jobs!). What's also nice is that these students are particularly energetic and inspired. Similar programs are being created in other post-secondary institutions.

It's not coincidental that Kingston, a city of 100,000 people, is blessed with five local businesses that install renewable energy equipment (solar PV panels, solar hot water systems, wind turbines, wood stoves etc.).

Reinforcements are coming!