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Chris Lotspeich

Director of Sustainability Services at Celtic Energy
MPPM 1996
Chris  Lotspeich

Chris Lotspeich MPPM, MES, CEM is Director of Sustainability Services at Celtic Energy Inc., a Connecticut-based consultancy. Chris is project manager for microgrid program design consulting for the State of Rhode Island, teamed with Arup and Rocky Mountain Institute, and lead author of the project report. He supports the U.S. Air Force and Defense Logistics Agency Energy on energy assurance projects at Air Force bases, partnered with Northrup Grumman. Chris supported Arup and the City and County of San Francisco to implement a Department of Energy grant for planning solar power plus energy storage installations for critical facility energy surety city-wide. He consulted on three FBI critical facility energy surety projects, teamed with ERG. Chris was project manager for consultant support on microgrid projects for four municipalities. He is a Board Advisor to the Resilient Design Institute and a speaker on microgrids and resilience at national conferences. Chris was lead author of the Whole-Systems Integrative Green Design Module for the Government of Singapore's Certified Energy Manager course created in 2010. Chris was a 2002–2003 Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia's Darden business school. From 1994–2001 he was Executive Assistant to Amory Lovins and Senior Associate at Rocky Mountain Institute where he worked on six continents and led numerous resource efficiency surveys at industrial facilities and on the U.S. Navy cruiser USS PRINCETON CG-59. Chris earned two masters degrees from Yale from the School of Management and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and a B.A. in International Politics from Wesleyan University. He served for 15 years as a firefighter and wilderness EMT on volunteer rescue services in Colorado, Connecticut and Maine. Chris lives in Connecticut with his wife Amy Dunn and their two children.