Your experienced lineworkers are eligible to retire. You just don't know which ones are planning to.
45% of lineworkers can retire within the next decade. Most utilities don't find out until someone announces their date. EIP identifies who is at risk years before that moment, using data you already have.
Of lineworkers are eligible to retire within the next decade.
2025 State of Power Line Jobs, Lineman CentralThe pattern here
Nearly half of all lineworkers are eligible to retire within ten years. This is the Critical Person Risk pattern in its purest form: it is not about how many people leave, it is about who leaves. A lineworker or plant operator with decades of grid-specific or facility-specific knowledge cannot be replaced by hiring faster. The same pattern shows up across specialized industries. In aerospace and defense, a quarter of the workforce is already at or past retirement eligibility.
Lineworkers
45%
Eligible to retire within the next decade.
2025 State of Power Line Jobs, Lineman CentralAerospace and defense
25%
Of the workforce has 20+ years of experience and is at or past retirement eligibility.
Deloitte, 2025The real risk
Not volume
One retirement can take decades of grid-specific or facility-specific knowledge with it.
“We tend to find ourselves having a lot of very important people without a lot of depth behind them because you just can't duplicate everybody.”
Succession, not just staffing.
When the people who know the grid, the plant, or the equipment retire, the knowledge leaves with them unless someone captured it first. This is a planning problem years before it becomes a staffing crisis.
How EIP helps in energy and utilities.
The Council
Our Council includes current and former energy executives, board members, and frontline leaders. They review your company as a group and tell you exactly what to do.
Flight Risk Score™
See which specialized roles carry the most retirement and departure risk, years before the exit.
Turn Tax™
See what losing one experienced technician or lineworker actually costs, not a national average.
Honest Read™
Capture what your most experienced people know before it leaves with them.