AP energy reporter leaving for Ernst & Young

Ray Henry, an Associated Press reporter in Atlanta who covered nuclear power and energy, is leaving the wire service to become an economist at Ernst & Young.

Henry recently completed a master’s degree in economics at Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.

Henry has been based in Atlanta since March 2010, and his beats included nuclear power; environmental, immigration and fiscal policy; and state government and politics. He was responsible for monitoring billion-dollar nuclear construction projects in Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee. He was also a member of the AP teams covering the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and 2011 nuclear disaster.

Before that, Henry worked for the AP in Providence, R.I., for four and a half years, and as a reporter for the Standard-Times of New Bedford, Mass.

He is a graduate of Boston University.