Kara Clark

Kara Clark is an American wind turbine and large-scale power systems researcher and electrical engineer known for her research on modeling wind power generation. She was elected an IEEE fellow in 2012.

Biography Kara Clark earned her Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado in 1984, followed by her M.Sc. in electrical power engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, in 1987.

Clark was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 citing her "contributions to the modeling of wind power generation."

Selected works

Clark, Kara, Nicholas W. Miller, and Juan J. Sanchez-Gasca. "Modeling of GE wind turbine-generators for grid studies." GE energy 4 (2010): 0885-8950.

Miller, Nicholas W., Kara Clark, and Miaolei Shao. "Frequency responsive wind plant controls: Impacts on grid performance." In 2011 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2011. Milligan, Michael, Bethany Frew, Brendan Kirby, Matt Schuerger, Kara Clark, Debbie Lew, Paul Denholm, Bob Zavadil, Mark O'Malley, and Bruce Tsuchida. "Alternatives no more: Wind and solar power are mainstays of a clean, reliable, affordable grid." IEEE Power and Energy Magazine 13, no. 6 (2015): 78-87. Denholm, Paul, Kara Clark, and Matt O'Connell. "On the path to sunshot-emerging issues and challenges in integrating high levels of solar into the electrical generation and transmission system." (2016).