(seated, left to right)

Jack Cashill

Ingram’s Magazine

(Moderator)

Bill Downey

Kansas City Power & Light

(Chair)

(standing, left to right)

Robert Courtney

Olathe School District

Gary Schlotzhauer

Kessinger/Hunter & Company

Rep. Jason Holsman

Missouri House of Representatives

Mike Deggendorf

Kansas City Power & Light

David Warm

Mid-America Regional Council

Steve McDowell

BNIM Architects

Energy:  Moving Beyond the Rhetoric

A select but representative sample of energy producers, consumers, and legislators met at the offices of Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L), a subsidiary of Great Plains Energy, in Downtown Kansas City on a cool and cloudy late November day to discuss the future of the energy industry. Chairing the session was Bill Downey, CEO of Kansas City Power & Light. Although there were some lively differences of opinion among the participants, there was sufficient commonality of purpose to establish some larger and potentially groundbreaking themes.

Challenges

The participants were asked to identify the single greatest challenge that they and their organizations face today in regards to energy. The answers were many and varied.