August 1, 2008
So this is where electricity comes from!
One of my clients, Indianapolis Power & Light Company, has updated their logo and it’s my job to put it on everything that had the new logo (and some new things!) This includes their fleet of heavy-duty vehicles (I didn’t know what a digger derrick was until recently); all their signage; employee badges, parking passes and uniforms; and all kinds of paperwork. My client Don and I have been touring the IPL facilities, looking for things that need to be updated. A couple of weeks ago, we toured the Harding Street Station, on the south side of Indy and on Tuesday we drove to Petersburg, Indiana (about two hours away) to tour the massive Petersburg plant.
For safety reasons, we have to wear jeans, boots, hardhats, safety glasses and earplugs. Not exactly fetching, and not exactly lightweight. We’ve had two 90-degree days so far this summer, and they were the days we toured plants. Can you believe it?
I can’t say that the concept of burning coal, creating steam and rotating a turbine to generate something invisible that travels through wire to power all our appliances makes any more sense than it did before, but it’s been kinda cool to see all the stuff that goes into it. And I’m more vigilant than ever about turning off unused lights!
The turbines at Harding Street Station
This almost makes me look petite, doesn't it?
When you need to move a lot of coal...
A Nice End to a Long Project « Beth’s Blog said,
January 22, 2009 at 1:56 pm
[...] signage for their six location, but for the most part, my work is done. I got to learn a lot about coal-burning power plants, visit their massive Petersburg facility and spent a lot of time checking the smallest details of the application of the new logo and [...]