Behind the meter wind has some vexing characteristics that until now have kept it largely off the playing field for large facility operators. One Energy has seemingly cracked the code by offering a bespoke, white glove approach. Their 1.5 MW turbines produce up to 5 million KWh per year of on-site Clean energy (note the high capacity factor). They install, own and operate turbines and sell a PPA to their industrial customers.
My guest today is Jereme Kent, founder and CEO of One Energy. Jereme is a wind industry veteran of 16 years.
One Energy is an industrial power company that helps large energy users build modern, tailored, on-site power grids for their facilities. In doing so, the company is decarbonizing manufacturing, enabling customer control, and building the customer-centric power grid of the future. As a vertically integrated enterprise, One Energy provides physical solutions including Wind for Industry® and ManagedHV™, as well as analytics and commercial offerings to enable end users to fully customize their energy experience. Everyday items are being produced cleaner and more sustainably thanks to One Energy’s Wind for Industry® projects – from dishwashers, sliced turkey products, and soda cans, to cement and renewable diesel.
Jereme Kent is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of One Energy Enterprises Inc. Prior to founding One Energy, Jereme ran construction of several of the world’s largest wind projects for utility-scale construction firms including RMT, M.A. Mortensen, and D.H. Blattner, and has overseen more than half a billion dollars in wind turbine construction projects. Jereme developed several safety, quality, and production methods that are considered standard within the utility-scale wind industry. He also pioneered the concept of just-in-time construction for utility-scale wind turbine projects.
Jereme holds four U.S. patents and has served as a peer reviewer for the Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office Bi-Annual Project Peer Review. He studied Civil Engineering at the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering, dropping out with one class left to help run what was, at the time, the largest wind project in the world. He is a Certified Tower Rescue Instructor, a Certified Crane Operator, a Certified Crane and Rigging Inspector, and an Advanced Emergency Medical Technician.
On this Episode of the Clean Power Hour, he joins Tim Montague to discuss whether it is possible to break the 2 cent PPA barrier with small wind, the pros and cons of behind the meter wind vs behind the meter solar and much more.
Key Takeaways
1. How Jereme got into renewable energy?
2. What is One Energy and who are its clients?
3. The pros and cons of behind the meter wind vs behind the meter solar
4. Is it possible to break the 2 cent PPA barrier with small wind?
5. The process and the consideration that you and your customers
6. The technology One Energy uses to avoid ice build up on solar blades
7. Is One energy exploring the use of microgrid approach when you can operate on offgrid mode.
8. Jereme’s thoughts on virtual PPA and has One energy done one?
What one energy is looking to do on the Power Infrastructure side?
