Associated with the Plan was a vision that “by 2020, California's workforce is trained and fully engaged to provide the human capital necessary to achieve California’s economic energy efficiency and demand site management potential”. Consequently the CPUC commissioned a California Workforce Education and Training Needs Assessment for Energy Efficiency, Demand Response, and Distributed Generation (the WE&T Needs Assessment) undertaken by the Donald Vial Center on Employment in the Green Economy at the University of California, Berkeley. The first area of research analysed the impact of federal and state energy efficiency policies and programmes on jobs and the labour market.