Wisconsin state partner and advisory committee
Midwest Renewable Energy Association
Who We Are:
The Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency, and sustainable living through education and demonstration. From our family-friendly Energy Fair, to our award winning Site Assessor Certification program, the MREA offers a way for everyone to work for a cleaner, greener future. And through our Solar for Humanity program, one can gain real world solar installation experience on a Habitat for Humanity home. Solar installation training has never been this rewarding.
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Eric Krszjzaniek, Curriculum CoordinatorEric culls the stacks of information and synthesizes it into something useful as the grant project's Curriculum Coordinator. Beyond editing and updating the instruction manuals for the grant, he also is in charge of maintaining the Gallery and Wiki input from instructors and state partners. |
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Chris Talbot-Heindl, Training Programs CoordinatorChris handles logistics and details of the Network, including instructor institutes, the MSTN website, Moodle administration, and data management. |
Our Goal for Wisconsin:
Wisconsin has more than a dozen schools and organizations that are offering some form of solar training to students. Our goal is to provide both new and established training organizations with customized resources to support high quality, home-grown training opportunities in the state. We believe that by working together, Wisconsin's solar training organizations can create a skilled workforce that is ready to meet the needs of an emerging green economy.
Our Advisory Group:
Eric Kostecki, WPPI Energy
Steve Ostrenga, Helios USA
Rick Ray, Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Carl Siegrist, We Energies
Don Wichert, Focus on Energy and Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation
Randy Zogbaum, Wisconsin Technical College System
David B. Toso, P.E., Madison Gas and Electric Company
Jeff DeLaune, Johnson Controls, Inc.
Steve Roberts, DWD/Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards
Participating Instructors and Institutions:
Ed Crownhart of Mid-State Technical College - Marshfield
Tad Bircher of Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Paul Schumacher of Fox Valley Technical College
Joel Shoemaker of Madison Area Technical College
Tom Kennedy of Milwaukee Area Technical College
John Kollman of Northeast Technical College
Earlyn Hanson of Western Technical College
Steve Macejkovic of Gateway Technical College
Mark Miller of Fox Valley Technical College
Photo gallery of trainings and facilities in Wisconsin:
Click on an image to open the gallery, from there, click the left and right buttons to navigate. To exit the gallery, simply click the "x."
