As part of an in-depth look at the U.S. wind energy workforce, researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) published A National Skills Assessment of the U.S. Wind Industry in 2012 (Leventhal and Tegen 2013). This report enumerated the size of the wind workforce by occupation; the types of education, training, and experience that employers seek when hiring; and the educational and training programs available to train this workforce. It concluded that the future growth of the wind workforce would require parallel growth in the number and size of educational and training programs if this workforce were to fulfill the hiring preferences of employers in the industry and according to the potential wind development scenario laid out in the U.S. Department of Energy’s