By Julie Cart, CALmatters.org
Barry Hooper’s co-workers can be forgiven if they try to avoid him in the office. No one wants to be fingered as an energy hog.
Hooper manages San Francisco’s 5-year-old building-efficiency ordinance, created to measure wasted energy in the city’s largest structures, give them a score the public can see and prod owners to lower the lights and the thermostats.
Actually, the program is going so well that the soft-spoken bureaucrat rarely needs to raise his voice. “There’s no energy police,” Hooper said, laughing.
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