Ilya Chernyakhovskiy

Ilya Chernyakhovskiy is the project lead and co-author for USAID’s Greening the Grid platform under the USAID-NREL partnership. He leads grid integration analysis and capacity building efforts in Central Asia countries, including Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, under USAID/Central Asia’s Power the Future program. Ilya is also part of the core modeling team for NREL’s grid integration studies in India. Prior to joining NREL, Ilya was a researcher in economic development at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He holds an M.Sc. in Resource Economics and Econometrics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.