Today, Southern California Edison (SCE) launched a $1 million initiative providing funds to community college students pursuing green jobs training or education. The Green Job Initiative will make $1,000/year scholarships available to hundreds of students at the program’s ten participating colleges, which include schools in Los Angeles, Cerritos, San Bernardino, and more southern California communities.

“Green jobs” is a slightly nebulous term, but solar installer training is definitely included–so if you know anyone training to be a southern California solar installer, you might want to pass the word along. SCE’s press release says the Initiative will fund students studying “solar panel installation, water and wastewater management, transportation and alternative fuels, biofuels production and farming, environmental compliance or sustainability planning.”

SCE is one of the state’s largest investor-owned utilities and serves nearly 14 million residents. It runs energy efficiency programs in addition to participating in the California Solar Initiative, distributing solar rebates to ratepayers who make the decision to install solar panels on their homes throughout Central Coast and Southern California.