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Amy V. Barr
Senior Project Manager

Ms. Barr manages the implementation and marketing of HMG’s utility-sponsored single- and multi-family new construction incentive programs. Her program implementation duties for Pacific Gas & Electric’s California Advanced Homes Program (CAHP) and 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 and is effectively working with industry professionals to transform the market through trainings, webinars, and workshops that educate participants on cost-effectively incorporating energy efficiency in residential new construction projects. During her time as program manager, CMFNH has enrolled projects throughout Northern California with average expected energy efficiency levels more than 24% better than current Title 24 standards.

She also leads HMG's work on California’s benchmarking efforts, which 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.

Ms. Barr also managed the Compliance Research portion of the Codes & Standards Program Market Assessment Study for Southern California Edison and the completion of a multi-family design guide, case studies, design brief, and training materials for Pacific Gas & Electric's Energy Design Resources (EDR).

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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