Won asks about pace toward 12K target and energy storage capacity
Won asks if the city is on pace toward the 12,000 apprenticeship target and about current energy storage capacity. Perry says approximately 900 of the 1,500 PINC participants are apprentices, with 17 youth apprentices at city agencies and 12 more starting this fall. He emphasizes community hiring and PLAs as future pathways to scale apprenticeships.
Are we on pace towards a 12,000 apprenticeship target?
And what is our current count against the 200 MW or 500 million baseline reported in the plan?
And what is the current induced storage capacity?
Oh, 200 megawatts.
So of that pink number that I mentioned, about 1,500, approximately 900 of them are apprentices that were connected through pink.
And like I said, we had 17 young people working at agencies in the green economy at sanitation, DOT, parks, DEP, DDC.
And we have another 12 young people starting apprenticeships this upcoming school year, and we're looking to continue that.
And as I mentioned as well, we have our community hiring initiative, which is just coming online with contracts just beginning, and there will be apprenticeship goals on those contracts.
So as we look towards that 2040 horizon, we're really excited about the opportunity of community hiring and our project labor agreements to
increase the opportunities for low-income New Yorkers, including our neighbors in NYCHA, to be connected to apprenticeships in New York.
The construction trades.