The Australian Power Institute
People and skills Powering Australia’s future
The Australian Power Institute(API) is a not for profit national organization established by the electricity power industry to boost the quality and numbers of power engineering graduates with the skills and motivation for a career in the energy industry which encompasses:
- Generation utilities
- Transmission utilities
- Distribution utilities
- Manufacturers and suppliers to the industry
- Consultants to the industry
- End users of electricity in their operations
Recent research estimated that there are currently approximately 5000 power engineering professionals in the industry and it is forecast that 700-1000 additional graduates will be needed in the next 5 years to meet growth and retirements from the industry.
Our vision is to create “ sustainability and excellence in Australia’s power engineering”.
The key objectives of API are to achieve the following:
- Attract students to consider power engineering as an exciting whole of life career choice.
- Facilitate world class undergraduate power engineering courses and academic resources available to students.
- Provide value adding post graduate development and applied research to industry.
- Position API as a vibrant, well respected organization by key stakeholders ie industry, universities and government.
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