High tech lighting products at RISE Engineering in Colonie Wednesday morning November 24, 2010. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)
By Larry Rulison, Timesunion Business Writer
Published: 12:00 a.m., Saturday, November 27, 2010
High tech lighting products at RISE Engineering in Colonie Wednesday morning November 24, 2010. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)
COLONIE — While some of the region’s best clean-energy jobs are at places such as General Electric Co. in Schenectady and Niskayuna, a new undertaking funded with state money targets green jobs for those at the bottom of the job market.
The Altamont Program, a longtime job training initiative run by Peter Young Housing, Industries and Treatment, received $186,875 from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to create a program that trains workers for the clean-tech industries.
The program already has eight graduates, including Ebony Davenport, a single mother of four who is now a marketing associate with Rise Engineering in Colonie.
Based in Rhode Island, Rise runs two National Grid energy efficiency programs that focus mostly on lighting upgrades in businesses and apartment buildings from the Capital Region to Utica and up to Watertown. It opened its first local office earlier this year and has grown from four to 16 employees.
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