Katherine Hamilton

Washington DC, USA — Quinn Gillespie & Associates, Director

As a director in the firm, Katherine Hamilton holds a leading role in providing senior government relations and strategic counsel to the firm's growing clean energy and environment practice.
 

Prior to this Katherine was President of the GridWise Alliance, a consortium of electricity industry stakeholders promoting an electric system that integrates infrastructure, processes, devices, information and market structure to generate, distribute, and consume energy in a more efficient, reliable and cost-effective manner. The Alliance brings together a diverse set of industry stakeholders and resources to deploy, demonstrate and quantify new technologies, approaches, and business models that cut across traditional industry segments and market boundaries.
 

Hamilton has extensive experience developing policy and partnerships in clean energy with both public and private sectors.  Prior to taking the helm at GridWise, she served as the policy advisor for Good Energies, Inc., a private investment company with a current portfolio in clean energy technologies of more than six billion dollars.  Prior to Good Energies, Hamilton was Co-Director of the American Bioenergy Association, where she worked with entrepreneurs, universities and utilities developing biomass technologies. She also advised the Governor of New Jersey on the biomass components for a state renewable portfolio standard. Her own company, The Hamilton Group, contracted with the Union of Concerned Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council, Midwest Research Institute and other organizations to lobby Congress and statehouses on various clean energy policies and funding.
 

Previously, working through the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Hamilton established several programs mandated in the Energy Policy Act of 1992. She started the SAVEnergy program, which provides energy audits to Federal facilities and which still operates under the DOE Federal Energy Management Program. After managing energy and water research and policy programs at NREL, Katherine was NREL’s Manager of Government Relations in the Washington, DC office, becoming an expert witness on renewable energy for the House Committee on Science and serving as an advisor to the Vice President’s task force on developing the national energy plan.