As an under­grad­u­ate Kel­ly was invit­ed to work as a GSR to com­pile data on decen­tral­ized renew­able ener­gy (DRE) in part­ner­ship with Pow­er for All (P4All) as part of a larg­er effort to research and to build the case for uni­ver­sal elec­tric­i­ty access by 2025 through dis­trib­uted renew­able ener­gy.  In this project Kel­ly is work­ing with Dr. Rebekah Shirley and Pro­fes­sor Dan Kam­men of UC Berke­ley Ener­gy and Resources Group.

In the Spring of 2018 Kel­ly is also a Vis­it­ing Stu­dent and mini-grid research stu­dent at the State Key Lab­o­ra­to­ry of Trans­mis­sion Equip­ment and Sys­tem Secu­ri­ty and New Tech­nol­o­gy at Chongqing Uni­ver­si­ty where she is super­vised by Pro­fes­sor Miny­ou Chen of the School of Elec­tri­cal Engineering.