Victorian Labor
Party policy · Energy & climate
SEC Apprenticeship Academy (government announcement)
Sourced, pending editorial review. Policies are summarised from each party's official material and independent sources captured on 10 November 2026. Summaries were compiled by automated research and have not yet been checked by a human editor — open the cited source to confirm.
What is being promised
2,000 electrical trade apprenticeships through the publicly owned SEC over four years.
How it is intended to work
Apprentices employed by the State Electricity Commission.
Who may be affected
- Apprentices
- Energy workforce
- Announced cost
- Not stated in the captured passage
- Funding mechanism
- Not stated in the captured passage
- Proposed timeline
- Over the next four years
- The government says the SEC Apprenticeship Academy will offer 2,000 apprenticeships over four years.
Important uncertainties
- This is a government announcement from May 2026, not a stated election commitment. No Labor 2026 election energy commitment was found on viclabor.org.au.
Positions on key approaches
The ban on gas connections in new homes should be reversed.
No documented position. No position found in captured sources.
Victoria should open up new gas exploration and production.
No documented position. No position found in captured sources.
Publicly owned renewable energy should play a bigger role.
Partly. Expands the publicly owned SEC's workforce; no statement on replacing coal and gas found.