Energy Workforce Supply Report
Contents
Energy Workforce Supply Summary
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Energy Completer State Rankings
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Detailed Completers by Occupation
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About This Report
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Key Terms and Concepts
Understanding the following terms is crucial to interpreting the data included in this report.
Completer: The number of people completing an
educational program award, degree or certificate during a given year (graduates).
Size Ranking: An indication of the state’s total output
of energy graduates compared to other states. Size is determined by identifying energy programs and totaling all energy completers.
Concentration Ranking: An indication of the states
relative concentration of energy graduates compared to other states. Concentration is determined by dividing energy completers by total completers (For example, energy completers make up 3% of all completers.) States are then ranked by highest concentration.
SOC Codes: Standard Occupational Classification
(SOC) codes are used to categorize groups of workers.
PREPARED FOR:
Center for Energy Workforce Development
REGION DEFINITION:
South Carolina
Introduction
This report is designed to analyze data on the supply of graduates trained in energy fields in South Carolina. The goal is to give stakeholders the necessary
information in planning efforts to benchmark against other states and to identify potential workforce shortages. To do this, the report provides an overview of South Carolina’s total supply of graduates by energy field with comparisons to other states followed by a breakdown of graduates by detailed occupation.
Program completer (graduates) data for 2006 was taken from the National Center for Education Statistics and mapped to occupations using a proprietary crosswalk. Energy occupations by field were identified by the Center for Energy Workforce Development and EMSI. For more information, see the final page of this report.
ENERGY CLASSIFICATION:
Total Energy Occupations: Defined by a Center for
Energy Workforce Development (CEWD) survey. This overarching category includes Fossil, Nuclear and Gas occupations as well as those that are included in multiple categories.
General Energy Occupations: Includes energy
occupations that fall into at least two of the three energy fields: Fossil, Nuclear and Gas.
Fossil Energy Occupations: Includes only energy
occupations that are employed within the Fossil energy field. Positions include those in electric generation, transmission and distribution.
Nuclear Energy Occupations: Includes only energy
occupations that are employed within the Nuclear energy field.
Gas Energy Occupations: Includes only energy
occupations that are employed within the Gas energy field. Positions include those in gas generation, transmission and distribution.
Summary and Rankings
Energy Workforce Supply
Analysis of energy occupations and related programs in South Carolina shows a total of 2944 energy related graduates. Of that number, 1715 are considered General Energy graduates trained in multiple energy fields, 430 are trained in Nuclear Energy, 806 are trained in Fossil Energy and 179 are trained in Gas Energy fields.
Energy Completer State Rankings
The following table shows how South Carolina ranks against all 50 states for the total number of people completing a degree in an energy field (“Size”) and the percent that energy completers make up of all completers
(Concentration). “Size” is an indicator of a state’s total output of energy graduates, while “Concentration” indicates a state’s relative educational focus on energy.
Energy Field 2006 Program Completers
Energy Total 2944
General Energy 1715
Nuclear Energy 430
Fossil Energy 806
Gas Energy 179
Energy Field Size Concentration
Energy Total 24 9
General Energy 28 16
Nuclear Energy 22 9
Energy Completers by Detailed Occupation and Field
The following table lists occupations by energy fields Nuclear, Fossil and Gas with corresponding program
completers for the state. Occupations included in more than one energy field are listed under General Energy with an “X” under F (Fossil), G (Gas) and/or N (Nuclear) to denote the detailed fields under which the occupation is classified.
GENERAL ENERGY
SOC CODE OCCUPATION F G N 2006 Program Completers
GENERAL ENERGY 1715
Technicians
47-2111 Electricians X X X 20
49-9042 Maintenance and repair workers, general X X X 7 17-3023 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians X X 198
Alt. title: Instruments and controls technician
47-2011 Boilermakers X X 0
47-2031 Carpenters X X 24
49-9044 Millwrights X X 126
Alt. title: Mechanical technician, Heavy materials technician
51-4041 Machinists X X X 195
49-9012 Control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door X X 0 49-9052 Telecommunications line installers and repairers X X 0
Alt. Title: Line Locator / mark out technician
47-2073 Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators X X X 0
Alt. title: Heavy equipment operator
Pipefitters / Pipelayers
47-2152 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters X X X 0 51-4121 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers X X X 202
47-2151 Pipelayers X X 0
Alt. title: Pipeline installer, Pipelayers / construction worker
Engineers
17-2071 Electrical engineers X X 231
Alt. title: Power systems engineer, Energy transmission engineers
17-2141 Mechanical engineers X X X 269
17-2041 Chemical engineers X X 89
17-2051 Civil engineers X X X 255
17-2081 Environmental engineers X X 14
17-2112 Industrial engineers X X 67
Plant / Field Operators
51-8012 Power distributors and dispatchers X X 18
FOSSIL ENERGY
NUCLEAR ENERGY
GAS ENERGY
SOC CODE OCCUPATION 2006 Program Completers
FOSSIL ENERGY 806
Lineworkers
49-9051 Electrical power-line installers and repairers 0
Alt. Title: Electrical and power transmission installers, Lineworker
Plant / Field Operators
51-8013 Power plant operators 18
Alt. Title: Auxilary equipment operators
Technicians
49-2095 Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay 237
Alt. Title: Relay Technician, Substation Mechanic
49-2093 Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment 551
SOC CODE OCCUPATION 2006 Program Completers
NUCLEAR ENERGY 430
Plant / Field Operators
51-8011 Nuclear power reactor operators 1
Alt. Title: Auxilary equipment operators
Technicians
47-2132 Insulation workers, mechanical 0
47-2221 Structural iron and steel workers 0
Alt. Title: Iron / metalworker
51-9061 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers 6
Alt. Title: Quality Assurance Technician
Engineers 17-2161 Nuclear engineers 6 STEM 19-2032 Materials scientists 0 19-2031 Chemists 281 19-2012 Physicists 104 19-4051 Nuclear technicians 0
Alt. Title: Health physics, Radiation technician, Radiation / chemistry technician, Nuclear chemical technician, Nuclear equipment operation and radiation protection technicians
19-4031 Chemical technicians 32
SOC CODE OCCUPATION 2006 Program Completers
GAS ENERGY 179
Plant / Field Operators
51-8092 Gas plant operators 22
Alt. Title: Gas Distribution Field Operators, LNG Plant Operators
Technicians
About This Report
This report was produced in collaboration between the Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD) and Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc. (EMSI).
ABOUT CEWD
Formed in March 2006, the Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD) is a non-profit consortium of electric, natural gas, and nuclear utilities and their associations – Edison Electric Institute, American Gas Association, Nuclear Energy Institute, and National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. CEWD was formed to help utilities work together to develop solutions to the coming
workforce shortage in the utility industry. It is the first partnership between utilities, their associations, contractors and unions to focus on the need to build a skilled workforce pipeline that will meet future industry needs.
Our mission is to build the alliances, processes, and tools to develop tomorrow's energy workforce. For more information about CEWD, visit us at
www.cewd.org, or call us at 202.638.5802.
About EMSI
EMSI provides integrated regional economic and labor market data, web-based analysis tools, data-driven reports, and custom consulting services. EMSI specializes in detailed information about regional economies for assessment and planning purposes, bringing together industry, workforce, economic development, and education/ training perspectives. EMSI's expertise is centered on regional economics, data integration and analysis, programming, and design so that it can provide the best available products and services for regional decision makers. EMSI recently merged with its sister company CCbenefits Inc.-well known for conducting socioeconomic impact studies for over 800
community and technical colleges across the nation-to offer an integrated portfolio of solutions for college, workforce, and economic development professionals.
EMSI's client base includes hundreds of colleges, workforce boards, economic development
organizations, governmental agencies, economists, consultants, academics, and private-sector analysts. With over four thousand current clients in the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom, EMSI's products and services are critical for informing regional policy. For more information about EMSI, visit us at
www.economicmodeling. com, or call us toll-free at 866.999.3674.
ABOUT THE DATA
Completions Data: Completions are voluntarily
reported by postsecondary institutions through the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated
Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Completions are organized by program using the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) codes and titles. Because some of these programs may train for multiple occupations (and multiple energy categories), completer data totaled across individual categories may include double-counting. For this reason, it is best to use the composite totals provided by the report rather than adding individual categories together.
Relating Occupations to Programs: The
occupation-to-program (SOC-to-CIP) “crosswalk” is a large table that describes which occupations are generally trained for by each standard postsecondary program (based on Classification of Instructional Programs [CIP] codes and titles, last updated in 2000). EMSI starts with the official crosswalk published by the U.S. Department of Education and customizes it in various ways to make it more accurate and practical for comparing programs to regional labor markets.
