Spencer Nelson
Policy Associate
ClearPath
Spencer is a Policy Associate at ClearPath focusing on nuclear energy, science & innovation policy, and energy economics.
Spencer Joined ClearPath in 2015 from UNC Chapel Hill, where he was chairman of the Energy Special Projects Committee. His academic research took him to the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment in Bangkok, where he conducted life cycle analysis of Thailand’s hydraulic fracturing potential. His other energy research includes global geothermal energy potential in OECD and developing countries.
He also has a research background in environmental genetics, with past focuses on phytoplankton productivity responses to nutrient changes at UNC, and the genetic component of susceptibility to air pollution at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Recent Publications
Long-Duration Energy Storage R&D: An Opportunity for American Climate Leadership
As David Hart and Spencer Nelson of ClearPath write for Utility Dive, American leadership is essential to bend the curve of carbon pollution downward toward zero. A U.S.-powered international initiative to accelerate progress on a technology essential to that push — long-duration energy storage — would demonstrate that leadership.
