Nils Johnson
Principal Technical Leader at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNils Johnson is a technical executive with 11 years of experience translating advanced energy systems modeling, GIS, and operations research into practical decarbonization strategies for utilities, national power companies, and international research programs. He has led development of capacity expansion and spatially-explicit models used by clients such as KEPCO, Duke Energy, and EPRI’s US-REGEN platform, and contributed to the IPCC 5th Assessment Report and over 20 peer-reviewed publications. His work spans hydrogen supply chains, long-duration storage, carbon capture deployment, and the water-energy-land nexus, combining rigorous techno-economic analysis with actionable policy and investment insights. Comfortable moving between high-level strategy and hands-on model development, he also maintains a broad international research network and a track record of embedding tools directly into stakeholder decision processes. An early adopter of spatial optimization methods, he brings uncommon depth in integrating GIS-driven geographic realism into large-scale energy and infrastructure models.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Environmental Management & Master of Forestry Landscape Ecology/Geographic Information Systems, Master of Environmental Management & Master of Forestry Landscape Ecology/Geographic Information Systems at Duke University Nicholas School of the EnvironmentBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science and Government, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science and Government at Haverford CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Energy Systems Modeling, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Energy Systems Modeling at Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis
Github Skills (9)
computer-vision10
opencv10
image-processing10
python9
deep-learning9
gif-animation7
converter7
gif5
javascript2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nilsjohnson/gill-clear-woodworks
Dec 2017 - May 2020
Website for local business. - This code is no longer used. Site moved to different platform.
Contributions:6 PRs, 43 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 5 months
local-businessjavascript
nilsjohnson/gif-it
Jun 2020 - Nov 2020
quick + easy gif converter
Contributions:201 commits, 76 PRs, 185 pushes in 5 months
gif-animationgifconverter
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