Full Name
Charles Kurnik
Job Title
Senior Engineer
Company
U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Speaker Bio
Charles “Chuck” Kurnik is a Senior Engineer focusing on microgrids in the Energy Security & Resilience Center at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, CO. He has been with NREL for over 15 years. He leads NREL’s support US Navy and Marine Corps enhancing energy resilience. He has supported DOE’s Weatherization Assistance Program for over 12 years. He was the Site Operations Manager of the US DOE Solar Decathlon in 2013 and 2015. Before coming to NREL, Chuck spent several years as a manufacturing engineer, and as a field engineer designing, installing and maintaining remote geophysical data collection systems. He has spent three seasons at McMurdo Station in Antarctica as a research engineer. He has a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Colorado State University, focused on data communications and building energy, and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Charles Kurnik