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C. Alan Walker, secretary of the state Department of Community and Economic Development, visited Penn College on Friday.

Penn College's Weatherization Training Center, expanded and modernized last fall in response to heightened American Recovery and Reinvestment Act investment, is the subject of a U.S. Department of Energy video.

Penn College's renowned Weatherization Training Center turned soundstage this week, as a video producer for the U.S. Department of Energy shot footage for the agency's efficiency and renewable-energy division. Brian Sabintrained his camera on instructional specialists Brian K. Wilson (also an alumnus) and Gerald A.

George Cornelius, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, toured the Weatherization Training Center at Penn College on Friday. The center has expanded operations in response to the growing demand for service fueled by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

For nearly 25 years, the Weatherization Training Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology has provided technical education and training to the professionals who implement programs helping low-income households reduce their energy consumption and costs.

The Weatherization Training Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology held its first Building Performance Institute training and certification event during the week of Jan. 12. Weatherization staff representing the Central Community Action Program, SEDA-COG, STEP Inc. and the Westmoreland County Weatherization Program participated in the four-day event.

The Weatherization Training Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology announces its affiliation with the Building Performance Institute. As a BPI affiliate, WTC will be aligned with a nationally recognized credentialing process and provide an enhanced career path for Pennsylvania Weatherization Assistance Program field staff and private-sector building-performance contractors.

With the arrival of another home-heating season, federal funding has been renewed for an acknowledged statewide leader in training thousands of technicians to improve the energy efficiency, health, safety and comfort of their clients' homes and businesses.

Using an infrared thermal imaging camera, an expert from Penn College's Weatherization Training Center was featured inan energy-efficiencypiecethat aired during Newswatch 16's 7 p.m. newscast Tuesday. "Forty percent of your bill is actually in air loss, not in insulation," Larry D. Armanda told WNEP's Norm Jones.

An initiative that has trained weatherization agencies and other technicians for more than two decades has been awarded federal funding to continue its timely mission of reduced energy consumption, health, safety and comfort for residential and commercial clients alike.