Kimberly Ann Johnston

About Kimberly Ann Johnston

As the Founder and CEO of NextGen Energy, Kimberly Ann Johnston as a proven track record in mobilizing billions of public and private sector capital investment towards building America’s 21st Century electric grid that is safe, resilient, carbon-free, and accessible to protect and serve societies. Kimberly serves on the National Consortium of the Long Duration Energy Storage Technologies.Previously Kimberly was EY America’s Power and Utilities Partner, EY Global Energy Leader, CenterPoint Energy Finance Officer and VP of Tax, and Spectra Energy Director. In 2017, Kimberly was recognized at Houston’s Most influential Women. In 2024, NextGen Energy received the International Impact Award.

Experience

1. Chief Executive Officer

   Nextgen Energy

   Feb 2022 — Present

   NextGen Energy is a highly specialized energy and grid innovation company pioneering a national portfolio of decentralized energy generation paired with long term storage systems designed to solve America’s escalating energy security challenges, grid instability, and hazard-induced power outages threatening economic vitality and societal prosperity. At NextGen Energy, our mission is to accelerate transformative grid solutions. We help clients and stakeholders across complex power systems to collectively solve energy security challenges with deployment of transformative power solutions serving mission-critical infrastructure. Our priority is to innovate and scale \"all-of-the-above\" carbon-free generation paired with advanced storage technologies driving energy cost savings and avoided power outage damages. We are committed to modernizing America’s aging electric grid and removing regulatory barriers to spur the commercialization of emerging energy technologies for greater power resilience in the most cost efficient manner.

Education

• Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

  Directorship Program

  2015 — 2015

• Harvard University

  Climate & Energy Policy Program

• University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business

  Bachelor’s Degree, Accounting

  1987 — 1991

• SMU Cox School of Business

  Executive Leadership Program

  2010 — 2010

• University of Idaho

  Executive Utility Program

  2012 — 2012

Skills

• Auditing
• International Tax
• Policy Analysis
• Internal Controls
• Due Diligence
• Financial Analysis
• Tax Accounting
• Corporate Tax
• Sec Filings
• Income Tax
• Finance
• Strategy
• Us Gaap
• Mergers & Acquisitions