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Combining strengths is helpful in many instances – like the different positions on a soccer team, mixing several ingredients to bake a cake, and blending materials to manufacture a wind turbine blade!

Today’s Science Short is about composite materials, like the fiberglass used to make wind turbine blades. Composite materials are substances made from combining two or more materials that have different properties on their own – in order to maximize desired properties (like strength or flexibility ) in the resulting material.

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Today’s edition of Wind Views features five of the turbines at the North Findlay Wind Campus, on a beautiful sunny day! 🌞

In this photo, each turbine’s rotor (which is made up of the hub plus the three blades) is facing the same direction: southeast. This is because that’s the direction the wind was blowing from when this picture was taken! Our wind turbines rotate, or yaw to face the wind, helping them better optimize this natural source of energy. 💨

There’s a number of reasons why you may see a group of turbines facing different directions. Tune in to next week’s Wind View to learn more!

It may seem obvious to use the proper tool for a given activity, but there are actually many ways workers can (and often do!) get it wrong. At One Energy, we don’t simply use the tools we CAN, but we use the tools we SHOULD –for safety, quality, and even financial reasons.

To demonstrate this concept, today’s Safety Minute focuses on using the right tools and methods for stripping high-voltage cable. See how a “stubborn electrician” might go about it, using fewer tools that may cost less, but are lazy, ineffective, and dangerous – then watch as we show how to use the RIGHT tools for this job. ️

Takeaways from this episode include:

• A tool that works is not always the right tool for the job
• Invest in the right tools to remove safety risk and improve quality
• Injuries are more expensive than the price of the right tools

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If you follow One Energy, you’re probably aware that we’re on-site wind energy experts. Wind for Industry is One Energy’s flagship energy solution – it’s what got us in the industrial power business to begin with!

What you may not know of is another energy service we offer: ManagedHV (pictured in today’s Wind View!)

ManagedHV is One Energy’s high-voltage-as-a-service solution. ⚡ We offer this service because most high-voltage distribution backbones in existing industrial facilities (the kind of facilities our customers operate) were built 40 years ago or longer, and are ripe for a major update.

Our solution provides a state-of-the-art plant high-voltage distribution system that enables our customers to efficiently move power, monitor usage, and protect facilities from grid issues. The service also provides an expandable and adaptable platform, enabling customers to add more distributed energy resources (DERs) when desired – including (but not limited to) wind turbines!

Learn more about ManagedHV here.

Have you ever wondered how much concrete is in the foundation of one of our wind turbines?

One Energy’s wind turbine foundations consist of 320 cubic yards of concrete, or the equivalent of 32 fully loaded concrete trucks! 🚛

In the early stages of wind turbine construction, this concrete is poured into an 8-foot excavation (the activity depicted in today’s Wind View!). This concrete, with the addition of rebar and other materials, helps ensure the turbines have very strong foundations. 💪