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.