NexTech Materials

NexTech has established a reputation for innovation and performance through its development of ceramic materials and components.    

Conesville Power Plant

AEP owns and operates about 80 generating stations in the United States, with a capacity of more than 36,000 megawatts.        

NGO/Propane

NGO Propane is a propane distribution cooperative that serves approximately 3,300 consumers in 8 counties.

Wind Farm / Bowling Green Municipal Utilities

Bowling Green is home to Ohio’s first utility-sized wind farm. There are four turbines that are 257 feet tall. These turbines, that are as tall as a 30-story building, generate up to 7.2 megawatts of power—enough to supply electricity for some 3,000 residents.

First Solar

First Solar has made the Promise of Thin Film a Reality and has become one of the fastest growing manufacturers of solar modules in the world.

Davis Besse Nuclear Power Plant

The Davis-Besse power plant is located in Oak Harbor, Ohio, on a site covering 954 acres. The plant is operated by FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company and owned by FirstEnergy.

OSU / Center for Auto Research (CAR)

CAR offers advanced experimental facilities that include engine and vehicle dynamometers, vibration, noise and acoustics laboratories, intelligent and autonomous vehicle laboratories, engine fluid mechanics and combustion research facilities, and electric, hybrid-electric propulsion, fuel cell and electrochemical energy storage research facilities.

American Electric Power Headquarters

AEP is also one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, with almost 5 million customers linked to AEP’s 11-state electricity transmission and distribution grid. The company is based in Columbus, Ohio.

Zimmer Power Plant

Zimmer is the first power plant to convert a nearly completed nuclear plant to coal-fired operation plant.  First fossil-fired generating unit in the world to produce 10.6billion net kwh in a single year.
Duke Energy High Wire Safety Demonstration
Electrical safety is explained with a high wire demonstration.

Twenhofel Middle School

A state of the art school incorporating monitoring of energy efficiency measures throughout the entire school, including day lighting, rainwater-harvesting system, geothermal heating and cooling system and solar PV system.

Carbondale Mine

Surface and underground coal mining has affected nearly 40,000 acres in the 683 square mile Raccoon Creek watershed in southeastern Ohio. The Carbondale Mine discharges an average acidity load of 218 tons per year. Efforts to restore the watershed began nearly 20 years ago in Gallia County with the formation of the Raccoon Creek Improvement Committee;

Ohio University Research Lab

Hydrogen Lab ~ Gerardine Botte, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology, has developed the patent-pending ammonia catalytic electrolyzer technology, which efficiently converts ammonia into hydrogen to produce inexpensive fuel.

Greenfuel Lab ~ Researchers with Ohio University’s Consortium for Energy, Economics, and the Environment (CE3) have been investigating several novel alternatives in the past decade, however, and have begun to capture the public imagination: vehicles fueled by algae, ammonia waste from factory farms, or biodiesel made from cooking grease.

Waterloo Coal Mine / blast

According to a rough estimate there are about 25,000,000 tons of shaft coal in the county.  Waterloo Mine is surface mining coal and at the site visit a blast was conducted.

Gavin Power Plant

AEP owns and operates about 80 generating stations in the United States, with a capacity of more than 36,000 megawatts.        

Racine Hydropower Plant

American Electric Power  operates the hydroelectric plant on the Ohio River.

Millers Bakery / propane / wind / solar

This Amish family-owned business attracts folks from hundreds of miles away to their southwest Ohio location. The furniture store and the separate building for the bakery and the bulk foods incorporate wind energy, converting it to electricity for the cash register and credit card charges.  They also have propane and solar as lighting options in their buildings. Together, the Millers have 300 acres of Amish country!