Craig Cornelius
President and CEO, Clearway Energy Group and Clearway Energy, Inc.
Prior to becoming Clearway Energy Group’s CEO at its formation through a spin-out of NRG’s clean energy businesses in 2018, Craig was President of NRG’s renewables division. In this capacity, he oversaw origination, development, engineering & construction, operations, and asset management across the company’s businesses in wind and solar power. Craig joined NRG in 2013, and before serving in his subsequent role, led new business development for renewables, with duties including the establishment of new market segments, acquisition of projects, and direction of process improvement initiatives.
Before joining NRG, Craig served for five years as a Principal and then a Managing Director in the solar investing practice at Hudson Clean Energy Partners, an early leader in the private equity sector’s expansion in the renewable energy industry. Previously, he was the Program Manager of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Program, where he led the creation of the $1.5 billion Solar America Initiative. He has also served terms at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Thai Geoinformatics and Space Technology Development Agency, and the U.S. National Academies of Science, in each instance working on varied space technology research & development and operational initiatives.
Craig holds an A.B. from Princeton University in History of Science and an M.A. in Science, Technology, and Public Policy from George Washington University.
Craig Cornelius is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Clearway Energy Group and its public entity Clearway Energy, Inc., which together form one of the largest clean energy companies in the United States.
In the course of my lifetime, I believe we can find a way to power human society without fouling our air and water and lands for future generations...I feel privileged to get to do that work every day here at Clearway.
