Energy
Transition
Energy Transition
Since our founding in 1978, NTC has partnered with utilities to educate communities on important energy-related topics. Our very first client, Northern States Power, set us on a path to where we are today – our position as a premium provider of educational programming that reaches thousands of students, educators and families each year.
We work with major utilities, co-ops, government agencies and other organizations to teach students, educators and family members at home about the energy they use every day. As the utilities industry evolves, we adapt our programs to meet your needs and the needs of your customers. Our K-12 school programs motivate entire communities to learn about:
- Energy efficiency and conservation
- Beneficial electrification
- Sustainability and behavior change
- Solar power and other renewables
- Electric vehicles
- Environmental justice
- Workforce development for the energy sector
- Changes to your customers’ energy supply and consumption
Our STEM-based programs engage students through humor and creativity. They also align with state and national education standards and enable organizations to fulfill utility goals in customer education and energy savings.
Closing the Clean Energy Knowledge Gap
Educational Points
Every NTC program is built around several educational concepts related to the overall subject matter and supported by the curriculum connected to those concepts. The content in each of our programs is articulated to appropriately connect to different grade bands in the K–12 setting and align with state and national education standards. Words matter, and we work with each individual client to craft messaging that presents your unique industry information to the schools in your communities.
Alerting customers to structural changes to their energy supply is important, but knowledge doesn’t automatically lead to action. Educating your community on the many benefits of sustainable energy can exponentially improve buy-in and active participation in your sustainability programs. NTC has a proven method of introducing subjects like solar energy, electrification, renewables, and other sustainability topics at the K–12 level and driving that message home to your customers. We keep your customers in-the-know with the following concepts:
- The impact of our energy usage on the earth
- How STEM education creates solutions to climate change
- The future of green careers
- What communities and families can do to conserve energy
- The definition of electrification
- Benefits of strategic electrification
- The difference between solar power and solar panels
- Ways to reduce your carbon footprint
- Customized educational concepts: What do you need to teach your communities?
Featured Programs
Electrification Nation
Electrification Nation is a multi-tier program that can include live events, e-learning and printed materials that teach students about how electricity is generated, what clean energy and a carbon footprint are and what we all can do to help the energy transition. The Electrification Nation graphic novel is a take-home print piece designed to inspire energy conservation in the home and empower the next generation to help define a clean energy future. Join Evie Wander as she travels across the country in her electric vehicle, Kitty, following a clean energy mystery. Evie visits a wind farm in Iowa, a hurricane clean-up crew in North Carolina and a battery storage facility in California. Along the way she learns about energy efficiency, clean, renewable resources, climate resiliency, electrification and conservation.
Home Smart Home
Home Smart Home is an energy transition educational program designed to inform students and their families about how energy is used in their homes and what tools and resources are available in their community to reduce their energy usage. The program covers a variety of home settings, from single family dwellings to apartment buildings and multi-family homes. The program is segmented for grade levels 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12. Each grade segment has call to action messaging that can be tailored for specific communities and utility programs. From younger grades learning about how to conserve electricity with their families to middle schoolers learning about the benefits of electrification and high schoolers learning about Smart Home careers, Home Smart Home is created to empower young people to be a part of the energy transition and influence their communities to do the same.
Connect2Next
Connect2Next is a STEM career pathways educational program that cultivates the next generation to be curious, critical thinkers who are eager to build STEM skills and solve problems. We have offered high school programs that center on green careers in STEM industries for some time, allowing utilities and other companies to recruit and inspire their future workforce – but our full curriculum goes as low as upper elementary school to respond to the changing trajectory of students’ matriculation. From growing awareness of the new emerging energy workforce to recruiting for specific training opportunities, we work to get students and their families excited about STEM and the major role it plays in society and the economy.
Click here to read more about the behavior change education programs NTC has delivered on behalf of many utilities.
With an increase in climate-related disruptions, the need to build more energy resilient communities is more urgent than ever. Getting your community on board is also more important than ever.