Excerpted from Triangle Business Journal – July 20, 2010
by Amanda Jones Hoyle
NC Energy Office grants $5.6M in stimulus funds
The North Carolina Energy Office is doling out $5.6 million in federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to create an internship program that will employ 400 North Carolina students training in green-energy related fields.
The federal funds are being combined with $3 million allocated from public and private agencies in North Carolina to fund the program, which will create jobs and internships for college students and recent graduates. More than 20 private businesses, public agencies and universities are expected to participate, according to information from the North Carolina Department of Commerce.
The N.C. Energy Office created the program with money from the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to provide green-energy-related internship and fellowship programs for North Carolina undergraduate and graduate students.
N.C. State University’s College of Natural Resources in Raleigh will use its $435,481 grant to hire 45 interns and three fellows with master’s degrees. An internship experience is a course requirement for completion of a degree in several majors within the department.