SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎

SFECI is the voice of SF's organized electrical workers and the contractors that employ them, advocating for the communities in which they live, work, and play.

[SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 @ECI415]

We are your Power Professionals. Look to our local San Francisco contractors and skilled & trained electricians to help you take advantage of extensive tax credits and subsidies for decarbonization, renewable energy, and modernization work in whatever size building you have.

[SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 @ECI415]

@skbarz @LondonBreed do you have thoughts on this? https://t.co/Gdo7b7Pmty

[SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 @ECI415]

Yesterday we learned that @SFMTA_Muni is full speed ahead on its Battery Electric Boondoggle despite evidence that leveraging the overhead line system to electrify the transit fleet is the cheaper, faster, and environmentally superior solution with the fewest operational impacts.

[SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 @ECI415]

As developers look to utilize California's streamlining incentives, they will have to consider the best way to meet their obligations to workers while delivering projects on time & on budget.

Streamline the right way with a @TradesSf PLA

Learn more at https://t.co/nOWHe1JAz9

[SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 @ECI415]

The San Francisco Electrical Apprenticeship is taking new applicants!

Start your application process here: https://t.co/0MlkcSZifh

Applications will be online only and only the first 1600 applications will be accepted

Good luck!

[SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 @ECI415]

Reminding everyone that @SFMTA_Muni *refuses* to conduct an electrification alternatives analysis even as it wants to spend $2B on the project

[Martin Wright @750V_DC]

10/n A speaker from Tallinn outlined the political struggle to retain trolleybuses. Fortunately, trolleybus advocates have prevailed, and the system is being renovated and expanded. Bottom line: local research established that trolleybuses are about 30% more effective than BEBs.

[SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 @ECI415]

Trolleybus maven Martin Wright reviews the most recent Trolley:Motion conference in Prague. Martin has been an invaluable resource in defending SF's trolleybus system - and hopefully its expansion - so give this a read.
https://t.co/GlgUP9nRnS

[Martin Wright @750V_DC]

Finally a 🧵on the Trolley:Motion trolleybus conference in Prague, The city is a flagship for the development of In Motion Charging trolleybuses. Notably, Prague is a capital city that revived trolleybus operation this year after a gap of 52 years.
📷DPP Dominika Brabcová 1/n

[Martin Wright @750V_DC]

Just attended the eBus:conference held by trolley:motion in Prague. Very well attended with a mix of trolleybus and battery bus delegates. Main themes were eBRT; trolleybus in a circular economy; planning an optimum trolleybus system. Prague is clearly the current flagship. 1/n

[SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 @ECI415]

As developers look to utilize California's streamlining incentives, they will have to consider the best way to meet their obligations to workers while delivering projects on time & on budget.

Streamline the right way with a @TradesSf PLA

Learn more at https://t.co/nOWHe1JAz9

[SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 @ECI415]

In a meeting with transit advocates @SFMTA_Muni's director of transit stated that they have not and will not conduct an independent technical analysis of the best way to electrify. Imagine implementing a $2B capital program on a whim!

[SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 @ECI415]

This is a failure of planning and a thorough abdication of their duty to transit riders and the taxpayers who will foot the bill. If the @SFMTA_Muni Board won't do anything maybe the @sfcta can step in and hold their capital funds

[SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 @ECI415]

This is a failure of planning and a thorough abdication of their duty to transit riders and the taxpayers who will foot the bill. If the @SFMTA_Muni Board won't do anything maybe the @sfcta can step in and hold their capital funds

[SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 @ECI415]

Yesterday we learned that @SFMTA_Muni is full speed ahead on its Battery Electric Boondoggle despite evidence that leveraging the overhead line system to electrify the transit fleet is the cheaper, faster, and environmentally superior solution with the fewest operational impacts.

[SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 @ECI415]

While @jeffreytumlin responded by ditching @SFMTA_Muni 's plan to eliminate trolleybuses, they have gone full steam ahead on a capital program to lean into the Battery Electric Boondoggle without even conducting their own alternatives analysis.

[Coconut Tree City 🥥🌴 @yinyang_yo_]

Your environmentalism means nothing if you oppose overhead wires for the reasons of "they're ugly"

Bus electrification is happening sooner or later and trolleybuses will be part of the solution

[Alexander Hirji @sashazandr]

putting the articulated extended range trolleybus through some more tests, and giving the joint a little workout

[The Building Trades @NABTU]

Trump’s Project 2025 is an anti-worker manifesto

[SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 @ECI415]

We are an industry of inclusion, uplift, and opportunity

[SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 @ECI415]

We are your Power Professionals. Look to our local San Francisco contractors and skilled & trained electricians to help you take advantage of extensive tax credits and subsidies for decarbonization, renewable energy, and modernization work in whatever size building you have.

[Ed Z @EdZarenski]

Plot shows how consistent construction jobs growth has been over the last 14 years. After the 2020 dip, the slope (rate of growth) of jobs growth is about the same as Jan2011-Jan2020. More construction data.
https://t.co/Nf7t6Dcncx

[SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 @ECI415]

This is tremendous news and an example for @SFMTA_Muni

https://t.co/MVkOG02uaS

[Martin Wright @750V_DC]

Interesting trolleybus news from Seattle. Kiepe Electric are fitting new batteries and chargers to the existing fleet of 170 trolleybuses dating from 2015 -17. The new equipment will treble the off-wire range. All manufactured in the USA. Photo: K P Canavan

[SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 @ECI415]

San Francisco's own Labor Compliance Officer Sabrina Hernandez as 2nd glowing electrician from the left!