downgrades in 2010 are the consequences of inaction to provide a serious market signal,” Bode said.
More recently, the AWEA joined with the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, Biomass Power Association, and other renewable energy and energy efficiency trade groups in calling for Congress to establish long-term policies that help sustain long-term markets for renewable energy technologies. The groups stressed an “urgent need” for comprehensive climate and energy legislation and specifically called for the inclusion of several measures:
—Establishing a “strong renewable electricity standard” that requires renewable energy sources to provide a percentage of grid electricity.
—Setting sensible and effective transmission policies.
–Setting targets and funding for strengthened building energy codes and compliance, and enhanced appliance efficiency standards.
—Establishing a building efficiency information disclosure program.
—Extending the convertible tax credit provision in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and incentives for residential, commercial, and industrial retrofits.
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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