On December 16th, ComEd joined partners from IBEW Local 15 in celebrating 121 local residents coming out of training schools located in Chicago, Joliet and Rockford, and demonstrating skills that are required to become full-time lineworkers with ComEd. The grads, or pre-apprentices, have demonstrated they have the physical, technical and safety training needed to move on to overhead apprenticeship school in 2023 – a key requirement for serving as a lineworker, and delivering power to over nine million people in the region. Expanding its workforce has been a top priority for ComEd in 2022, and will continue to be in 2023. ComEd is hiring overhead and construction workers in preparation for the clean energy transition that is underway in Illinois. Having more skilled, diverse and local talent is essential to ComEd’s ability to scale for the clean energy expansion – which calls on the grid to support more solar panels, electric vehicles (EVs), and preparations in the face of severe weather events fueled by climate change. Graduates reflect all corners of ComEd’s northern Illinois service territory – with participants from 89 zip codes.

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