How Bloom Energy’s power-generating boxes work
They freeze the San Jose Sharks’ hockey rink, keep Home Depots open in New York State when Con Ed goes dark, and power data centers in Santa Clara, Utah and North Carolina.
Behind the deal: Houston upstream co. enters ‘free fall’ bankruptcy
Alta Mesa went into bankruptcy without an agreement in place with its creditors. What happens next is anyone’s guess.
Bill Nye: ‘Embracing science is the key to the future, changing the world’
Bill Nye, a mechanical engineer who skyrocketed to fame in the 1990s by showing how science can be “fun,” was honored for his work in STEM education at MRIGlobal’s 75th anniversary luncheon Thursday.
Tom Sack, CEO of the Kansas City-based contract research organization, kicked off the event with an introduction focused on the work the company has produced since its inception during World War II, calling its employees “serial, scientific problem solvers.”
Sack presented Nye with MRIGlobal’s 2019…
40 under 40: Will Niccolls has a green solution for a dirty problem
In 2015, Will Niccolls and his wife, Kyleen, founded Green Latrine Portable Toilets, which recently secured deals to provide portable toilets for the Special Olympics USA Games and the WSDOT.
Kansas regulators deny utility rate increase request to fund purchase
The Kansas Corporation Commission announced Thursday that it has denied a rate increase request from Westar Energy.
The KCC says in a release that Westar, now Evergy, requested a rate increase to help the company pay for an 8-percent investment in the Jeffrey Energy Center. Westar and Kansas City Power & Light already owned 92% of the energy center.
According to the KCC the request, if granted, would have cost utility customers $93 million over the next 15 years.
The commission order says Westar…
Editor’s Notebook: T. Boone Pickens
I got to interview T. Boone Pickens in front of my company’s leaders and my editorial peers from around the country.
And the credit goes to a Wichita connection I had that, perhaps, many of you share.
Pickens died Wednesday at age 91. His passing reminded me of our brief time together.
It was around the time of the recession, 2008, and Pickens was promoting his ideas for U.S. energy independence. It was called “The Pickens Plan.”
He proposed reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil by focusing…
Exelon tower window falls again in Harbor Point
Another window fell at the Exelon tower in Harbor Point on Thursday morning. Unlike an incident last year, no one was injured this time.
Exelon confirmed a window pane fell and broke at the 23-story building. Protective scaffolding surrounding the building installed last year caught all of the fallen glass. The $170 million tower is the headquarters for Chicago-based Exelon’s Constellation business unit and houses about 1,500 employees.
Exelon (NYSE: EXC) notified the building’s owner, Beatty Development…
Meet the lawyer behind Colorado’s changing oil and gas rules
Transforming Colorado oil and gas law is the biggest job Jeff Robbins never expected.
Houston energy co. led by James Hackett files Chapter 11, names new CEO
Struggling Houston-based energy company Alta Mesa Resources Inc. (Nasdaq: AMR) and six affiliated companies have filed voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy petitions on Sept. 11.
Alta Mesa’s midstream platform, Kingfisher Midstream LLC, and its subsidiaries are not part of the Chapter 11 reorganization process, according to a Sept. 12 press release.
The main petition from Alta Mesa Resources Inc. lists total assets of about $1.4 billion and total debts of about $864 million. The company also lists…
Meet Catherine Stempien, a 2019 BusinessWoman of the Year honoree
Catherine Stempien
President
Duke Energy Florida
Educational background:
Bachelor’s – Dartmouth College
JD – Boston University School of Law
AMP – Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School
What was your first ever paid job? Sales clerk at a local sporting goods store
What is your favorite movie of all time? Hard to pick just one, but I love “12 Angry Men”
What drives you to succeed? 1.8 million customers and 3,500 employees. I know that our customers depend on us for a critical…
