Region. Employment of apprentices

This year marks 100 years of training apprentices at EnergyAustralia, with more than 4000 apprentice line workers, electrical mechanics, cable jointers and motor mechanics joining the company since 1910. Executive manager of learning and development, Tom Emeleus, said EnergyAustralia hoped to employ about 160 apprentices next year, adding to the 600 apprentices already in training at Silverwater, Meadowbank, Wallsend and Muswellbrook. The class of 2011 will be the first to begin their training at EnergyAustralia's new state-of-the-art Silverwater Learning Centre to be completed by early next year.