Dennis coe can laugh about it now. At the time, however, the superintendent of Henry County Schools (AL) wasn't quite so amused by the wattage-wasting antics of his students and staff. He was working overtime, he says, "just to keep the lights of the school on." Faced with drastic cuts to his utility budget, Coe had resorted to somewhat draconian measures to save energy and cut costs, including putting lockboxes on the thermostats so that teachers and students couldn't control the temperature. But the utility bill kept creeping up.
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