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Amy V. Barr
Senior PM and Operations Manager

Ms. Barr is a Senior Project Manager at the Heschong Mahone Group, Inc. with a background in residential new construction program implementation, project management and organizational development, and California benchmarking policy.

As a Senior Project Manager at HMG, Ms. Barr manages the implementation and marketing of HMG’s utility-sponsored multi-family new construction incentive program. Her program implementation duties for Pacific Gas & Electric’s California Multi-Family New Homes (CMFNH) include organizing, coordinating, and overseeing all reporting, budgeting, client meetings, staff time, outreach, and marketing activities. She also ensures the program remains on target to meet and exceed energy savings goals. Additionally, she and her team develop and host trainings, webinars, and workshops that educate industry professionals on cost-effective mechanisms to incorporate energy efficiency in residential new construction projects in order to further transform the market. During her time as program manager, CMFNH has enrolled projects throughout Northern California with average expected energy efficiency levels more than 26% better than current Title 24 Standards.

She also leads HMG’s work on California’s benchmarking efforts also entails working with the California Energy Commission, California utilities, California Public Utilities Commission, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, industry stakeholders, and State law makers to develop the enabling regulations and accompanying guidelines for the implementation of AB1103, a California law requiring benchmarking and disclosure of energy usage data by nonresidential building owners. Additionally, Ms. Barr managed the day-to-day operations of the Governor’s Benchmarking Initiative under Executive Order S-20-04, which involved coordination between the EPA, all California energy utilities, and over 30 State departments.

In 2011, Ms. Barr lead the legislative initiatives portion of the Potentials, Goals, and Targets study HMG performed alongside Navigant Consulting on behalf of the California Public Utilities Commission. This important study served to provide guidance for the utilities’ next energy efficiency portfolios, update the forecast for energy procurement planning, inform strategic contributions to California’s greenhouse gas reduction targets, and set benchmarks for Risk Reward Incentive Mechanism. She and her team evaluated the targeted energy savings from eight major legislative initiatives at the federal and state level in order to identify the associated goals and targets driven by these initiatives between 2013 and 2024. The initiatives were chosen because they are among the most prominent energy efficiency initiatives in California that will influence the potentials and goals to be set by the CPUC for the IOUs.

Ms. Barr has also managed the Compliance Research portion of the Codes & Standards Program Market Assessment Study for Southern California Edison and the completion of a multifamily design guide, case studies, design brief, and training materials for Pacific Gas & Electric.

In addition to her project work, Ms. Barr serves as HMG’s Operations Manager. In this role she manages, directs, and coordinates the daily operations of the company. Ms. Barr provides leadership, direction, and coordination to administrative staff and Group Managers. She also has responsibility for ensuring staff productivity and quality control, efficient operations and planning, as well as for achieving profit objectives for the company. Her focus is on implementing the company’s strategy so as to achieve financial, operational, quality, client satisfaction, and employee performance and engagement goals and objectives.

Prior to HMG, Ms. Barr was an Emerging Venture Analyst at the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center. While there, she was in charge of the UC Davis West Village Energy Efficiency Project, which was instrumental in integrating energy efficiency into the 224-acre development. She compiled a comprehensive report for the University and its developer partners, providing business plans that detailed how they could best integrate energy efficiency into their mixed-use, student, and faculty housing project while still maintaining its affordability. Ms. Barr also worked on developing models that increase energy efficiency in buildings and conducted market research for many of the California Lighting Technology Center’s Lighting California’s Future projects.

Ms. Barr received her MBA from UC Davis with a concentration in Strategic Development and her BS in Environmental Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, GA.

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