Prior to launching Acceleration Energy as a Founding Principal, Kevin Knobloch was President of Knobloch Energy LLC, an independent advisory and consulting firm working with clients to accelerate the deployment of clean energy projects. 

Knobloch is a General Partner of London GreenCity, a new climatetech accelerator of post-startup clean technology entrepreneurs based in West London. He served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Greentown Labs, the largest and most effective climatetech incubator in North America, with more than 225 startups in its labs in Somerville, MA, and Houston, TX, in 2023-24.

Knobloch was President of New York OceanGrid LLC, where he led Anbaric’s efforts to develop offshore wind transmission in New York from 2018 to 2020. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP) at the Tuft University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where he co-authored, with Professor Bobbi Kates-Garnick, the report Clean Energy Policy and Expanding Markets: Insights from Corporate, Labor and Investor Leaders.

Knobloch was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Energy in President Obama’s second term, working with Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz from June 2013 through January 2017. He led the Union of Concerned Scientists as its President for nearly ten years (2004-2013), after serving as Executive Director for the previous four years and, in an earlier tenure, as Legislative Director for Arms Control and National Security (1989-1992). 

Earlier in his career, he served as Legislative Director for U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth of Colorado, Legislative Assistant for U.S. Representative Ted Weiss of New York and Director of Conservation Programs at the Appalachian Mountain Club. 

He serves the Advisory Board of the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center at Stony Brook University and is a Distinguished Associate at the Energy Futures Foundation. He formerly served on the Boards of Heartland Water Technologies, National Offshore Wind Research & Development Consortium, Blue-Green Alliance, New York League of Conservation Voters, National Commission on Grid Resilience and CERES.

He holds a Master in Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, with a focus on natural resource economics, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.