‘March of inevitability,’ not politics, drives clean energy revolution, Manhattan Beach Deputy Energy Secretary Rodrigues tells South Bay leaders
by Kevin Cody In January, one year after retiring from a 33-year career in the private energy sector, Gene Rodrigues was nominated by President Joseph Biden to lead the Department of Electricity, as the Department of Energy’s Assistant Secretary of Energy. The Manhattan Beach attorney doesn’t know who recommended him to the Biden administration. “I suspect friends from the clean energy industry,” he said following his keynote address last Thursday to the South Bay Cities Council of Governments. SBCCOG’s 23rd Annual General Assembly was held at the Carson Community Center. Rodrigues worked for 23 years at Southern California Edison, where his responsibilities included its solar and alternative energy incentive programs. In 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency honored Rodrigues with its first-ever Climate Leadership Award. The politically divided Senate approved Rodrigues’ nomination unanimously, despite Republicans having cast a party-line No vote just a few months earlier in an unsuccessful effort to block Biden’s $370 billion Inflation Reduction Act. It is the largest climate investment bill in the nation’s history. “These are politically charged times,” Rodrigues…
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