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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! 🌱

August 10, 2021 – “Power Hour,” Benzinga

One Energy CEO, Jereme Kent, was a guest on Benzinga’s “Power Hour” daily live stream. During Jereme’s segment, he discusses what decarbonization for industrial manufacturers looks like, raising capital, and the change that’s needed within the utilities sector. 

Ohio Business Magazine released its sixth annual list of Best Workplaces in Ohio and One Energy was one of seven companies featured with a write-up (found on page 33 of the PDF). We’re proud to be one of the Best Workplaces in Ohio!

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.

As part of Bizwomen’s “In Her Own Words” series, One Energy’s Head of Regulatory Affairs Katie Johnson Treadway wrote about persistence in the time of COVID-19 – as both a mother and an executive in an essential industry. Her essay includes advice on how to face challenges in the pandemic and beyond.

There are many ways to determine which direction the wind is blowing. Some prefer to lick their finger and hold it up in the air. At the One Energy office, we like to look out of our windows to see how the North Findlay Wind Campus turbines are facing. But we also employ more scientific methods to study wind direction and speed, which require wind instruments like the anemometer and wind vane pictured in today’s Wind View!

These instruments collect data on wind speed and direction so we can model weather patterns over a few hours, months, or years. You can learn more by watching our Science Shorts video about OE’s weather station, as well as the episode titled “How Wind Instruments Work.”

July 23, 2021 – Science Shorts | Kinematics

Position, velocity, and acceleration – what do these terms really mean? (And perhaps more importantly, what do they have in common?!)

These three properties are part of something called “kinematics” – the branch of physics that helps us describe the laws of motion.

You can learn all about it in today’s Science Short, where Ramy breaks down each term, with helpful examples along the way!

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Lately I have heard a lot of discussion about “leader-doers” and the benefits they bring to a company. In fact, just a few weeks ago another member of the executive team at One Energy wrote about this very topic.

So, what are leader-doers? To put it simply, they are people who are responsible for both the functions of a leader, such as managing a team and guiding the strategic vision of the company, and also for completing daily tasks and functions, such as writing reports, creating financial models, and writing contracts.

Many companies have leadership teams that consist of leader-doers, and it can be very beneficial. For example, leader-doers know how to do most of their team’s activities, so they can help employees avoid pitfalls in tasks they are completing. They also tend to be more in touch with the day-to-day experiences of their team and the company.

But not all is rosy when it comes to being a leader-doer. While this leadership style has many benefits, there is a negative underside to the leader-doer; it’s what I call the “leader-do-too-much-er.”

The leader-do-to-much-er has so many daily tasks on their plate that it becomes difficult to both complete those items and have time to manage employees and work on the strategic vision of the company (at least in a timely manner).

There are some serious risks to leaders at a company being leader-do-too-much-ers. First, if a leader has constant deadlines to meet, the urgent ends up taking priority over the necessary or important. This can lead to tasks or big-picture thinking taking a back burner to pressing daily or weekly deadlines.

Second, it can make it increasingly hard to delegate tasks to others. If a leader is so busy getting things done or responding to the urgent matter of the day, it becomes very easy, and sometimes faster, to just complete the task, rather than delegating or training others to take them over.

Third, it can lead to the leader-do-too-much-er slowing down the progress of the rest of the team. If the leader-do-too-much-er has too much on their plate to keep up with the pace that others who have smaller scopes of work, it will drag down the pace of the entire team.

And finally, structuring a company with leader-do-too-much-ers can ultimately cause leaders to burn out. Leaders, like everyone else, can only operate at a high level and intense pace for so long before burnout occurs.

So, what is a company to do? I believe there are three main ways to deal with the issue of the leader-do-too-much-er. First, companies can separate the leaders from the doers. They can have leaders who lead teams and guide strategic vision, but who are not responsible for day-to-day tasks that are core to the functioning of the business. This is probably the simplest way to address the issue of a leader-do-too-much-er, because it creates a clear demarcation in roles and leaves leaders ample time for leading and strategizing. However, the problem with this is that it creates additional overhead and a level of pure “management” that may end up out of touch with employees.

Second, you can have your leadership team be leader-doers, while putting up safeguards to prevent them from becoming leader-do-too-much-ers. This includes looking at the tasks the leader-doer is being asked to complete and trying to determine whether they are reasonable or need to be whittled down or narrowed in scope. It involves taking a hard look at whether other team members can take over some of the tasks of the leader-do-to-much-er. It also includes looking at how much effort the leader-doer must put forth to complete (or attempt to complete) what they are responsible for, and asking yourself, “is this sustainable?”

A third way of approaching the issue is a combination, where some leaders are solely responsible for big picture leadership issues and others are leader-doers.

The second two approaches (establishing safeguards, and a combination of big picture leaders and leader-doers) may enable you to strike the best of both worlds, but they require the hard work and taking the time to evaluate the company’s leadership team and the roles they inhabit. But regardless, at the end of the day, you owe it to your employees and company to put the time and work into guarding against leader-do-too-much-ers. The risks are too high not to.

Katie Johnson Treadway is the Head of Regulatory Affairs at One Energy.

Learn more about Katie and the One Energy team.

When working hundreds of feet in the air, proper training and safety standards are imperative. If an accident or emergency were to unfold inside a turbine, it is of upmost importance that individuals are returned to the ground safely.

At One Energy, safety and quality are always first – which is why we train and prepare everyone who regularly climbs our wind turbines. From knots to repelling to treatment, our team is prepared to mount a multifaceted response for any scenario.

Learn about how One Energy’s Tower Rescue Training program helps prepare field personnel and local emergency response teams in this month’s episode of Safety Minute.

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