PORTLAND — People seeking job training as wind turbine technicians can take a five-day course beginning Monday that includes tower rescue training on First Wind‘s Stetson Wind Project in Washington County.
According to a Friday report, First Wind, an independent wind power company with offices in Portland and Boston, is providing access to its wind farm for 30 existing and aspiring wind-turbine technicians for a tower rescue training course.
The training is one of two courses funded through the Maine Department of Labor and the Maine North Star Alliance Initiative, an economic development engine for coastal Maine.
First Wind is studying wind atop three Rumford mountains, which could lead to a future wind energy project in that town.
The first three days of the five-day tower rescue training course include classroom work and interior practical training at HSE Gould’s indoor facility in South Portland.
The last two days of the course will be held at Stetson Mountain using field practical training on the ground and in the wind towers.
A composite training course will also be held at the Maine Advanced Technology Center at Southern Maine Community College.
Although the first composite class ended Friday, the second session will run Monday through Wednesday, Dec. 7-9. Tower rescue training classes will run from Dec. 7-11 and Dec. 14-18.
For more information, contact First Wind Communications Director John Lamontagne at 617-964-3340, or [email protected].
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