Tim Hennessey

Tim Hennessey
Chief Engineer

Tim has a diverse background as a senior executive and leader of technology and energy service companies. He is both a technical expert and solutions innovator, pioneering advanced energy solutions and products for multinational corporations and early-stage companies.

During his career he has worked globally, beginning in Africa in the power utility sector for 15 years, extending to leading company operations in China, India, Europe and for the last decade in the USA.

He pioneered the initial stages of grid scale energy storage including developing the incentive program for battery energy storage in California in 2008. This proved pivotal to extensive adoption of grid storage coupled with renewable energy generation.

For over two decades he has promoted the concepts of distributed energy and optimized grid solutions developing and patenting “self-healing grids” in 2005, repowering of old wind farms and incorporating DC energy storage in wind turbine drives for extended ride through. More recently he has developed large scale, firm, renewable generation solutions. These efforts provide the pillars for Virtual power plants.

He has raised over $100 million in institutional and private capital for multiple startup companies and has served on the boards of both private and public corporations.

Tim was born and educated in South Africa where he obtained a Master of Science in Engineering as well as several business qualifications. He has been a registered Professional and Chartered Engineer in the UK for over 30 years and holds sixty-five patents extending from energy storage systems to smart grid and wind farm technology. He authored the “Blue Book” a guide to Power Quality in South Africa and has an extensive publication list. He is an advisor to several technology startups.

Tim joins Edelen Renewables family as the Chief Engineer.