Consumers Energy Contacts

 

Company: CMS Energy Company/ Consumers Energy

     Parent Utility: CMS Energy  (to view all plants of this Parent Utility)

          Address: One Energy Plaza - 1945 West Parnall Road

          City: Jackson

          State: MI

          Zipcode: 49201-2277

          Country: USA

          Telephone: 517-788-0550          Fax:  


Name: Holmes Corwin   Engineering Services Dept.
Source: Gen. Entry 5-2012/11-2012
Email: 
corwin.holmes@cmsenergy.com
            Telephone: 616-738-3509/ 517-788-1756        Fax:  

   Areas of Interest:            Flue Gas Desulfurization           Power                    


Name: Jeffrey L. Holyfield   Dir./ News & Information
Source: Power 2010
Email: 
jlholyfield@cmsenergy.com
            Telephone:          Fax:  

   Areas of Interest:            Flue Gas Desulfurization           Power                    


Name: John McConnachie    
Source: Mega Symposium 8-2012
Email: 
john.mcconnachie@cmsenergy.com
            Telephone:          Fax:  

   Areas of Interest:            Flue Gas Desulfurization           Power                    


Name: Kathryn (Katie) Cunningham    
Source: Gen. Entry 5-2012/11-2012
Email: 
kmcunningham@cmsenergy.com
            Telephone: 517-768-3468        Fax:  

   Areas of Interest:            Flue Gas Desulfurization           Power                    


Name: Scott J. Sinkwitts   Attorney/Legal Dept.
Source: EUEC Conf. Phoenix 2-2011
Email: 
sjsinkwitts@cmsenergy.com
            Telephone: 517-788-9044        Fax: 517-788-2543

   Areas of Interest:            Flue Gas Desulfurization           Power                    


Name: Thomas Scott   Primary Contact
Source: Gen.Entry 11/08 - 5/09
Email:              Telephone:          Fax:  

   Areas of Interest:            Flue Gas Desulfurization                                


Name

Scott Thomas

Executive Manager - Engineering Services

Consumers Energy

April 2007 – Present (5 years 9 months)

Responsible for the leadership of the power generation technical services function, inclusive of plant modifications, major equipment maintenance, project engineering, and the corporate laboratory - chemistry, calibration, non destructive testing and metallurgy services.

Executive Manager - North American Operations

CMS Enterprises

2004 – 2007 (3 years)

Full general management responsibilities for the North American portfolio of electric generation assets. Responsible for the global environmental compliance program for CMS Enterprises.

Brian Fitzgerald, P.E.

Director of Environmental Projects at CMS Energy

Location

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

 

Jon Koetje, P.E., PMP

Project Manager, Consumers Energy

Location

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Industry

Utilities

Jessica Srodon

Engineer at Consumers Energy

Location

Jackson, Michigan Area

Industry

Utilities

Previous

in the Operational Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Department in Generation with a focus on capital projects.

Focusing on improving water and steam quality at our generating plants.
a Project engineer of 19% Aqueous Ammonia System to be installed at Karn 1&2.
a Participated in numerous chemical cleans fleetwide
a Generated fleetwide three year mobile DI/RO contract
a Developed specification for Whiting 1 chemical clean, and performed bid evaluations for vendor selection

David Thornock

EPC Project Manager II at Consumers Energy

Location

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Industry

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Previous

 

Experience

EPC Project Manager II

Consumers Energy

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CMS; Utilities industry

July 2012 – Present (6 months) D.E. Karn Plant

I am the Project Manager over significant boiler outages for Karn 1 and Karn 2

Engineering Manager Major Projects and Construction

CMS Energy

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CMS; Utilities industry

October 2008 – October 2012 (4 years 1 month)

Lead team of engineers who work through the design, specification, and construction/installation of equipment for all of Consumers Energy.

EBR Boiler and Mechanical Lead

Consumers Energy

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CMS; Utilities industry

October 2008 – December 2010 (2 years 3 months) JH Campbell Plant - West Olive Michigan

Engineering Manager responsible for 3 large utility boilers and the mechanical systems in the plant including boilers, firing systems, pulverizers, fuel handling, ash systems, draft systems SCRs and stacks. Economic Based Reliability for all of those systems.

Director of Engineering

Johnston Boiler Company

September 1997 – October 2008 (11 years 2 months)

Directed Engineering functions for small boiler manufacturer. Designed pressure vessels to ASME codes for special applications, extablished standards for 18 different boiler sizes, designed ultra low NOx (9 ppm) burners for natural gas firing, designed 2 other burner lines for gas and oil firing.

Consulting Engineer

ABB Combustion Enginering

January 1990 – September 1997 (7 years 9 months)

Research and Development in coal combustion from reaction kinetics to fireside performance and NOx emissions. Used pilot-scale, full scale data to validate CFD models. Used data to predict performance on industrial and utility scale applications.

Staff Engineer

Foster Wheeler Energy

September 1988 – December 1989 (1 year 4 months) Clinton, New Jersey

Coal combustion - Utility burner design, work with design and drafting, field verficiation of engineering parameters, and burner test facility support

Linda Hilbert

Director of Environmental Policy and Strategy at Consumers Energy

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Location

Jackson, Michigan Area

She has been  working on  SCR and other air pollution control projects

Jon W. Allan

Jon is the Manager of Next Generation at Consumers Energy. In this role he is responsible for programmatic leadership of technical, planning and policy-based initiatives related to the analysis and development of new electric generation assets within the Utility. His responsibilities include direction of technical optimization studies for generation asset addition and the evaluation of non-generation load management options. He is also responsible for extensive interface and coordination across multiple departments within the company and for coordination of Corporate policy related to Michigan's 21st Century Energy Plan.

Most recently he was Director of Environmental Services, Land and Water Management for Consumers Energy Company and also Department Head of the Company's Analytical Chemistry Laboratory. He has been with the company for more than twelve years. His environmental responsibilities related to issues of water use and permitting, groundwater, wetlands, fisheries, land management, hydro relicensing, environmental assessment and environmental policy analysis. In his laboratory role, he was responsible for the management of the Corporate Chemistry Lab, a full service environmental analytical laboratory.

He has worked on water-related issues with the Michigan Chamber of Commerce's Environmental Quality Committee and is a past chairman of the Committee. He has participated in a wide range of regulatory and rules workgroups including recent groundwater legislation. Jon recently served as the utility representative on the Advisory Committee to the Water Management Working Group of the Annex 2001, is currently co-chairman of Michigan's Groundwater Conservation Advisory Council.

In addition to his roles within the environmental arena, he has served as chairman of a Technical Advisory Group for Gas Research Institute on gas pipeline construction, and has recently participated with Cambridge Energy Research Associates on Energy Policy related issues.

He has previously worked for the Institute for Environmental Toxicology at Michigan State University. He has taught a number of courses over the years in ecology and natural sciences, environmental impact assessment and marine biology at Michigan State University, Lansing Community College and for the Philadelphia Academy of Science. He has participated on a number of community boards and commissions including as chairman of East Lansing's Commission on the Environment and as president of the Michigan State University Museum Associates Board of Directors.

He holds an undergraduate degree in Fisheries and Wildlife, a Masters Degree in Zoology (Aquatic Ecology) from Michigan State University, and completed substantial additional post graduate work in Environmental Policy and Law at MSU. He is a published author on topics related to wetlands, stream ecology and fisheries.