Shannon Baxter-Clemmons, Ph.D. presently serves as the Executive Director of the South Carolina Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Alliance. She returned to the Palmetto State in 2007. She was previously the Assistant Secretary for Hydrogen and Alternative Fuel Policy to the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency. In 2004, she led the development of the California Hydrogen Blueprint Plan for the State with the input of over 200 active stakeholders. Governor Schwarzenegger adopted the Blueprint in May 2005 as the State’s hydrogen policy agenda. Prior to 2004, she was at the California Air Resources Board in the Chairman’s Office of Science and Advanced Technology. During that time she served as ARB’s representative on the California Fuel Cell Partnership’s Working Group from 1999 through 2004. During her time with the California Fuel Cell Partnership, she managed the development of two ground breaking studies Bringing Fuel Cell Vehicles to Market: Scenarios and Challenges with Fuel Alternatives, 2001, and Support Facilities for Hydrogen Fueled Vehicles: Conceptual Design and Cost Analysis Study, 2004. Before arriving in California she worked as the Director of Special Projects at Fuel Cells 2000 in Washington, DC and was awarded research appointments at E. I. Du Pont de Nemours, WESTVACO, and Argonne National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of South Carolina in 1999. Her graduate research emphasized using electrochemical engineering to find environmentally responsible solutions to energy and waste issues, namely fuel cells as a source of clean power and electrolyzing hazardous waste streams.
Shannon currently serves as the Co-chair for the Transportation Research Board’s Alternative Fuels and Technologies Committee, on the DOE/NREL Hydrogen Education Review Panel and the National Hydrogen Association’s H2 and You public education campaign’s Steering Committee.
Shannon was born and raised in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. She and her
husband, Dave Clemmons, have one daughter, Isabelle, and live in Charleston, SC. They are
expecting their second child, a boy, in early July 2008.
Contact Information:
Shannon Baxter-Clemmons, PhD
Executive Director
South Carolina Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Alliance
PO Box 12302
Columbia, SC 29211
Cell: (803) 727-2897
baxterclemmons@schydrogen.org
