Karlynn Cory is the group manager for Community Energy Transitions (CET) in the Accelerated Deployment and Decision Support Center at NREL. The mission of the group is to support domestic community leaders and other stakeholders working to accomplish its clean energy transition by supporting community goal setting, strategy, multiyear planning, deployment, financing, workforce development, and analysis expertise. The group is also connecting and communicating CET best practices, lessons learned, and templates, as well as fostering technology-agnostic, data-driven analysis that considers human decision-making. Finally, CET is encouraging broad-based community and stakeholder involvement or engagement.

Research Interests

Renewable energy program and project development
Renewable energy techno-economic analysis
Clean energy project financing
Renewable energy market potential
Clean energy goal setting and planning
Distributed generation impact on transmission and distribution systems

Education

M.S., Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University

Featured Work

Electrifying Transit: A Guidebook for Implementing Battery Electric Buses, USAID-NREL Technical Report (2021)

Voices of Experience: Microgrids for Resiliency, U.S. Department of Energy Book (2020)

Power Sector Transformation Pathways: Exploring Objectives, Factors. and Technology Innovations to Inform Power Sector Pathway Decisions, NREL Technical Report (2020)

Quantifying Distributed Solar Photovoltaics Costs and Benefits: Considerations and Decision Framework for Oklahoma, NREL Presentation (2019)