Author: Chris Long

Christopher Long is Manager of Offshore Wind and Siting Policy at the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). In this role, Christopher serves as AWEA’s lead staff member on offshore wind energy issues as well as on additional land-based wind energy siting issues including sound/health impacts and development on public lands.
 
Prior to joining AWEA, Christopher was Deputy Policy Director for Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee and was responsible for energy, environmental, and transportation policy including land-based and offshore wind energy development.  From 2007 through 2010, he served as a Senior Policy Analyst for Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri. One of his primary responsibilities was energy policy including the development of offshore wind energy projects.
 
Christopher was also a fellow in the New England Clean Energy Council’s Leading Clean Energy Ventures Program at the Boston University School of Management which focused on innovation, venture formation, technology commercialization and job creation in the clean energy economy.

  • Falmouth votes to keep turbines; Australian sound study confirms others

    24 May 2013 by Chris Long

    The town of Falmouth, Mass., on Cape Cod voted overwhelmingly Tuesday against removing two wind turbines installed at its wastewater treatment plant. The vote in Falmouth was taken in a…

    Tagged: Australia Falmouth MA Massachusetts Sound Victoria Wind Energy wind power

  • New Yorker explains nocebo effect, NPR airs junk science

    8 April 2013 by Chris Long

    In recent weeks, we've reported here on new studies from Australia and New Zealand that strongly suggest ailments attributed to wind turbine sound are actually caused by the "nocebo" (similar…

    Tagged: national public radio new yorker npr Sound Wind Energy wind power Wind Turbine Syndrome

  • New Yorker explains nocebo effect, NPR airs junk science

    8 April 2013 by Chris Long

    In recent weeks, we've reported here on new studies from Australia and New Zealand that strongly suggest ailments attributed to wind turbine sound are actually caused by the "nocebo" (similar…

  • Reason trumps fear in Australian debate on wind energy and sound

    5 December 2012 by Chris Long

    A recently released report from Australia’s Senate Committee on Environment and Communications helps to set the record straight on wind energy and sound. Senators John Madigan and Nick Xenophon introduced…

  • PRESS RELEASE: American wind power reaches 50-gigawatt milestone

    American wind power has blown through an historic milestone: 50 gigawatts of electric generating capacity, the American Wind Energy Association announced, just as Congress works to extend a critical federal…

    Tagged: 50 GW infographic wind power



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