BioNate Kinsey is the Vice President of External Affairs at UtilityAPI, a company on a mission to fight climate change and accelerate an equitable clean energy transition by unlocking data. With his expertise in external affairs, Nate fosters strategic partnerships and collaborates with industry stakeholders to drive the adoption of data access solutions for all types of clean energy companies, organizations, and utilities. Nate also leads UtilityAPI’s federal affairs initiatives, which focus on using the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act funds to expand statewide data access platforms nationwide.
Before joining UtilityAPI, Nate worked throughout the building energy efficiency, demand flexibility, and electrification sector. He brings a wealth of experience and painful memories of how just how important access to customer utility data is to designing programs, implementing projects, and decarbonizing communities at scale.
Nate is also a proud alumnus of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI) Fellowship program, a University of Southern California Trojan, and a certified scuba dive master. He currently lives in Washington, DC, where he monitors his apartment's GHG emissions using UtilityAPI’s data access tools. CompanyUtilityAPIJob titleVP of External Affairs