OC 500: Mike Hopkins

Mike Hopkins

CO-OWNER, ICE ENERGY

Business Journal Innovator of the Year honoree … makes, building cooling systems … make ice at night, tapping cheaper electricity to cool rooms during day, saving on AC cost … current installations save enough energy to power 16,000 homes … 2018: $40M equity funding, Argo Infrastructure, NYC; 20- year deal with SoCal Edison (see Gaddi Vasquez) … $10M revenue