Chadstone TAFE secures $10 million for training upgrades towards a more renewable grid for Victoria

The Federal and State governments have announced a $10 million upgrade to an existing training centre at Holmesglen’s Chadstone TAFE campus, part of a $50 million boost to the state’s clean energy workforce.

❓ What’s happening? Holmesglen Institute of TAFE’s Chadstone campus will receive a $10 million boost towards its existing Electricity Supply Industry Training Centre.

The aim is to enhance the facilities, equipment and technology to provide more modern training practices in line with the country’s renewable energy future.

• Chadstone’s ESI Training Centre will train the next generation of power line workers on both overhead and underground distribution methods.

• The students will then work across a number of infrastructure projects across the state, including constructing new lines – both overhead and underground –  to new renewable energy projects, including offshore wind projects planned in the Bass Strait off Gippsland and off the Warrnambool and Port Fairy coast.

💰 Victorian investment: Federal Skills and Training Minister, Andrew Giles, and State Skills and TAFE Minister, Colin Brooks, visited the TAFE Gippsland Morwell campus on Thursday morning to officially launch the funding alongside a new training facility called the Renewable Energy TAFE Centre of Excellence.

• $25 million of the funding will be shared between the Chadstone and Morwell facilities for staffing and equipment.