BPA Awarded Funding for Statewide Needs Assessment and More in Georgia

The Building Performance Association (BPA) and the Home Performance Coalition (HPC), working as dual entities, have been awarded $150,000 in funding from the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority (GEFA) to complete a statewide workforce needs assessment, partnership development, community outreach, and a certification and scholarship initiative.

GEFA provides loans for public water, wastewater, and solid waste infrastructure; manages energy efficiency and renewable energy programs; administers land conservation loans; and manages and monitors state-owned fuel storage tanks in Georgia.

The purpose of this contract, which runs from July 2026 to June 2027, is to build a clearer, evidence-based picture of Georgia’s energy workforce, including where the gaps are, what employers need, and what’s standing in the way of workers getting into and advancing within the field. That picture depends on a credible, well-run needs assessment, which is the core research deliverable of the whole contract. Everything else in this initiative draws on what this assessment finds.

Specifically, this initiative aims to:

• Conduct a statewide workforce needs assessment to identify current and future labor demands in Georgia’s energy efficiency and clean energy sectors.
• Pinpoint training and certification gaps that hinder workforce entry and advancement, especially among underserved, rural, and low-income populations.
• Develop and implement certification support programs in collaboration with Georgia’s public colleges and technical institutions, including scholarships and multilingual training resources.
• Support Georgia’s energy resilience goals by preparing a skilled workforce capable of implementing energy efficiency upgrades, retrofits, and grid modernization projects.

This project will directly contribute to GEFA’s mission by accelerating workforce readiness, increasing access to clean energy careers, and enhancing the state’s capacity to meet its energy efficiency and resilience targets.

If you are a contractor, trainer, nonprofit, or workforce organization in Georgia and are interested in partnering with BPA on this project, please reach out to Bryson Rose, Director of Community Impact at brose@building-performance.org.