Chuck Kurnik has broad engineering experience in energy, remote instrumentation, and manufacturing. He assists federal agencies in locating electric vehicle charging infrastructure, is the project manager of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE's) Guidelines for Home Energy Professionals, and is managing microgrid projects for the U.S. Marine Corps. He has also served as the site operations manager for DOE’s Solar Decathlon. Kurnik also manages DOE’s Uniform Methods Project, an effort to bring industry consensus to measurement and verification methods for estimating savings from rate payer-funded energy efficiency programs.

Research Interests
Microgrids

Grid-interactive electric vehicle charging

Low-income weatherization, integrating funding streams, and workforce development

Education
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign