Andrew Campbell, executive director of the University of California, Berkeley’s Energy Institute, had a similar experience.Campbell wanted to upgrade the electrical panel on a duplex he owns in Oakland so that he could install electric-vehicle chargers for the building’s tenants.But even after finding a company to take the job, a shortage of technicians and the contractor’s overbooked schedule, among other delays, meant it took eight months from the time the first electrician came over until the project was done.“It’s going to be the electrification worker, the electricians that are going to see a real surge in demand,” said Panama Bartholomy, executive director of the Building Decarbonization Coalition, a national nonprofit working to get fossil fuels out of homes.“It is hard to imagine tens of millions of households in the U.S. individually undertaking the sort of time-consuming, expensive process that I experienced,” wrote Andrew Campbell in a blog post chronicling his experience."