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August 09, 2023 – Wind Views | Company Reading List

Discover the book collection that helped shape One Energy’s company values!

From autobiographies that showcase the power of resilience and determination to business guides that inspire success and innovation, this lineup, hand-picked by One Energy CEO Jereme Kent, exists to encourage our team to lead and fuel the growth of the company.

July 26, 2023 – Wind Views | Keep It Simple

This week’s Wind View starts with a question.

Would you rather:
A.) receive power made hundreds of miles from where you need it, at a higher cost?
B.) make power directly on-site, hundreds of feet from where you need it, at a lower cost?

We prefer option B because it makes power simple for our customers. One Energy’s Wind for Industry® projects are built on-site and directly power customers’ large industrial facilities. We own and operate the project; our customers just pay for the power they use. It’s that simple.

Our projects enable customers to take control of their power by providing two decades of rate certainty – when electricity prices skyrocket, our customers’ bills stay the same.

July 19, 2023 – Wind Views | OE Tower Rescue Training

Strap into your harnesses and get ready to climb into another Wind View!

We’re hanging out with our newly trained Tower Rescue Team this week. Recently, some One Energy employees completed a three-day Tower Rescue Training course – during the class, students learn how to use climbing equipment, repel down towers, and save our pretend victims (AKA our gracious training instructors). This curriculum provides the most hands-on training experience possible. This is just one of the ways One Energy creates a strong safety culture – and has some fun along the way!

July 12, 2023 – Wind Views | On the Road Again!

We just couldn’t wait to get our wind turbine components on the road again!

Component transportation is an exciting time at the North Findlay Wind Campus – it gives non-construction team members a look at the scale and magnificence of different turbine parts (like the blades shown in this clip.) Many of us love watching the components get loaded up as they move out and get delivered to the project site.

Not only are we beginning construction on another Wind for Industry project, but upon completion, helping another large industrial user take control of their energy costs.

July 05, 2023 – Executive Thoughts | Controlling the Narrative: The Power of Perspective in Project Success

The term “control the narrative” can have negative connotations. A narrative is a story. It is an account of events and experiences. “Controlling the narrative” means actively shaping how a story is told – a story that might often be about you. Internal narratives can be our best asset – or they can be our worst enemy – depending on how we control them. They can also have a more profound impact on others than we might realize. I try to take command of my internal personal narrative to ensure that I am sharing a positive external story at work.

As managers and professionals, controlling the narrative in our minds influences our emotions and helps us make balanced decisions. We can gain a better perspective on situations by focusing on constructive aspects, which can in turn help prevent bias and negativity from clouding our judgment.

This lesson became abundantly clear to me through my experience coaching youth sports. The candidness of 10-year-old children served as a constant reminder that they could read me like an open book. Young children will quickly become a reflection of the coaches around them. The highs can’t be too high, because excessive enthusiasm might set unrealistic expectations; and the lows can’t be too low, because a defeatist mindset would inhibit the team’s progress.

While coaching youth hockey, I aspired to maintain a level-headed perspective, celebrating even the tiniest victories. During challenging times, when facing a loss – or several losses – it was essential for me to help tell a positive story to the players by finding silver linings and lessons in the experiences. This approach prevented the players from falling into a negative spiral and was achieved by celebrating small victories, such as: winning a single period, scoring a goal, controlling a face-off, or just playing a successful shift.

This level-headed perspective can help us, as managers, to make more logical choices quickly. The story we convey to our team begins with the narrative that we cultivate in our heads. It is always important to balance the good with the bad. For example, before briefing my team on financial results or important company events, I choose my words carefully so that I don’t oversell a positive result or linger on negative items. Being overly optimistic may seem enticing, but declaring that everything is great all the time will eventually erode one’s credibility. Likewise, adopting a consistently negative perspective – or being a “Debbie Downer” – can drain an entire team’s motivation. Having an open and honest approach is crucial for avoiding extreme positivity or negativity.

Ultimately, controlling the narrative means taking charge of our internal thoughts and emotions and actively shaping how we externally communicate those experiences to others. The goal for leaders is to identify and challenge the negative voice and to replace it with a new, more positive one. Recalibrating our perspective can instill confidence in ourselves and our team, increasing motivation and fostering a resilient mindset. Instead of succumbing to a self-fulfilling prophecy of failure, learn from your setbacks, find wins amidst challenges, and propel your projects toward success.

The way we frame our experiences internally and communicate them externally can be the defining factor between project success and failure. The narrative begins within – how will you let it control your team’s performance?

Rich Bohon is the Head of Analytics at One Energy.

Learn more about Rich and the One Energy team.

June 28, 2023 – Wind Views | Teachers Take Field Trips Too!

Great educators are also students! Last week we had the privilege of hosting local teachers from the Raise the Bar Hancock Summer Educator Experience group for a tour and a discussion panel with field engineers and project specialists at the North Findlay Wind Campus. These teachers soaked in everything One Energy had to offer, and they even got to take some data back to their classrooms for future use with students!

One Energy strives to educate our community and the STEM leaders of tomorrow! If you’re an educator looking for fun ways to teach STEM in your classroom, be sure to check out our social series Science Shorts on YouTube or visit our website for fun homework problems and class activities!

June 22, 2023 – LiDAR Deployment | A Day in the Life

For this A Day in the Life episode, we get an inside look at the One Energy Project Planning and Technology (PPT) team’s latest research and development project. Watch as PPT members Kurt Lutz, Darshan Bhosale, and Kevin Padgett work together to deploy a LiDAR at the North Findlay Wind Campus to measure on-site wind speeds and direction.

This experiment should help us:
– better understand how our wind turbines are performing after installation
– use that information to better model our energy yield estimates

Keep an eye out – we may have a follow-up episode about our findings in the coming months!

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June 21, 2023 – Wind Views | Kicking Off 2023 Megawatt Scholarship Celebrations

The 2023 Megawatt Scholarship award ceremonies are officially underway! We always get excited for this time of year – it’s an honor celebrating so many brilliant young students in the community before they embark on the next steps of their journey.

June 14, 2023 – Wind Views | Sunny North Findlay Wind Campus

For this week’s Wind View, we’re showing off One Energy’s beautiful North Findlay Wind Campus (and the stunning sunny weather). With the help of our drone and these clear skies, we get a unique view of nine of the ten turbines at this campus, along with our headquarters and laydown yard.

June 07, 2023 – Wind Views | New Exhibit

We weren’t sure if our educational substation component installation would fit inside the office building, but after some measuring and special maneuvering, the construction team pulled it off! Stay tuned to see the display fully finished in the coming weeks!