Danny Kennedy

Senior Advisor

2024 - Current

Sunrise is a strategic re-granting organisation that supports global networks of organisations to collaborate to drive the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.

Director

2025

I am honoured to have been elected to the Strategy Board of the Global Solar Council at this inflection point in history as the world moves to run on sunshine. We need an industry association up for the task! That’s where the Global Solar Council (GSC) comes in. As the unified voice of the global solar PV and battery sector, GSC brings together national and regional solar associations, industry leaders, and policymakers to accelerate a just, inclusive energy transition. 🔆 We advocate for policies that put solar at the heart of climate strategies. 🔆 We connect markets, enabling shared expertise and collective momentum. 🔆 We raise standards to ensure quality, sustainability, and long-term impact. 🔆 And we support emerging economies in unlocking solar's full potential. At GSC, we strongly believe that solar power has much yet to offer — if we unite to unlock its potential.

Senior Adviser

2024

Wollemi Capital exists to accelerate climate innovation, investment and action. See Wollemi.com

Venture Partner

2024

Working with our amazing SE Asian teams to bring early stage catalytic capital to entrepreneurs that need it most in the fight to slow climate change in a key market.

Chief Energy Officer

2019 - 2024

I was grateful to handover to Henri van Eeghen on the first of the month for a very smooth transition. I cannot wait to see how he and team evolve NEX to achieve its mighty mission and support 100,000 diverse entrepreneurs in the energy transition.

Unreasonable Mentor

2022

Unreasonable focuses on scaling what works. The Unreasonable community of entrepreneurs is shaping trillion-dollar industries and uplifting the lives of more than 1.4 billion people. They handpick and privately invite the world's most impactful growth-stage companies into the Unreasonable Fellowship. As an Unreasonable Mentor, I get the incredible opportunity to help scale the efforts of these history-defining ventures.

Managing Director

2015 - 2024

CalCEF’s team of leading financial professionals, entrepreneurs, policy-makers, and scientists believes that a new model of entrepreneurship and financial innovation in the public interest is required to speed the transition to a clean energy economy. We curate an ecosystem to optimise the energy transition.

President

2015 - 2023

CalCharge was a public private partnership we ran for a decade to boost battery startups in the energy innovation ecosystem of the golden state. After a decade of success' we started to globalize the work, with our Just Batteries initiative, and decided to wind down this organization. Li costs are around $107 kwh and the IRA is putting billions into the industry, Lithium Valley stemming from Imperial County is becoming a reality and some of our little startups like Cuberg have exited and are building big factories. It feels good to claim victory and move on to what's NEX!

Member of the California 100 Commission

2021 - 2023

Founding Board Chair

2020 - 2023

A joint venture of RMI and New Energy Nexus, Third Derivative is a new vertically-integrated engine for climate innovation. We find, fund, hone, and scale the world’s most-promising technologies to achieve larger, faster reductions in global carbon emissions.

Cofounder

2012 - 2023

Powerhouse is an innovation firm and venture fund. The firm partners with corporations and investors to help them find and engage with cutting-edge startups, tap into proprietary market insights, and lead the next century of clean technology innovation. The fund, Powerhouse Ventures, identifies and supports founding teams building innovative software to rapidly transform our global energy and mobility systems.