ONE POWER FEED

As the summer comes to a close, we wish students and teachers a great start back to school!

Graduating seniors in the class of 2022: be sure to bookmark www.megawattscholarships.org and apply for one of our $5,000 Megawatt Scholarships when applications open in the fall. Your name could be displayed on a turbine, like the one pictured in today’s Wind View!

At One Energy, we take great pride in our projects. That’s we built our headquarters next to the wind turbines at the North Findlay Wind Campus! The nine wind turbines pictured here directly power our customers’ industrial manufacturing facilities. With our headquarters being so close to projects, we can admire the results of our hard work every day!

This is Wind for Industry – and this is industrial decarbonization.

Many Wind for Industry customers operate industrial facilities that manufacture common, everyday items. In fact, you might find some in your own home!

For example, most of the office plants at One Energy’s headquarters are potted in plastic containers produced by one of our customers (part of their manufacturing facility shown in today’s Wind View). That means the fabrication of our flowerpots has been powered in part thanks to on-site, behind-the-meter wind turbines – and the clean energy they produce! 🌱

If you’ve enjoyed any messy barbecues this summer, you may have also used a mirror to check if you need a napkin!

That mirror (and how light interacts with it) is an example of reflection in action. Reflection is a property of optics that has to do with how light bounces off a flat surface at a certain angle.

Learn about reflection in today’s Science Short, along with another property of optics: refraction! (Which Jerrod will demonstrate with an experiment using a glass of water and a wooden stick. )

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Installing a Wind for Industry project represents a major commitment to the community where the project is built. Not only do these turbines directly supply clean energy to the industrial facilities they power, each turbine also has a $5,000 scholarship associated with it, annually awarded to local students pursuing a degree in a STEM field. That’s at least $100,000 in scholarships per turbine throughout its operating lifetime!

What’s more, these turbines are expected to last more than 20 years – so the installation of a Wind for Industry project on site demonstrates a company’s commitment to operating the facility – and continuing to  provide local jobs – for decades to come.