Baird: BlocPower is hiring and training 1,500 NYC workers for building electrification
Donnel Baird · HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird · Jul 7, 2022 · at 29:45
Donnel Baird is the founder and CEO of BlocPower, a climate tech startup that retrofits and electrifies urban buildings.
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“We have got a really cool project in New York with Mayor Eric Adams. We're hiring 1500 people from the low income communities where I grew up and where I was a community organizer in New York City, and we're training them on how to electrify buildings. And we're paying them 20 to 40 bucks an hour and putting them to work to decarbonize buildings in New York City to install heat pumps and solar panels.”
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