re: Texans thermostats raised remotely without their knowledge during “energy saving event”

I set my AC to 78 during the summer and the heat 68 during the winter. When it's 90 outside 78 feels good and when it's 30 outside 68 feels warm. In the Fall and Spring I don't even have my AC or furnace on. I open the windows or wear a sweatshirt and use more blankets. I can't believe Texans are such pussies.

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if it prevents the grid going down for several days or even rolling blackouts it is hard to argue with.

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Or maybe Texas shouldn’t have deregulated their power grid.

You can turn it off when you go on vacation and turn it back on before you get home so you come home to a cool home without wasting money. You can set it to toggle between heat/cool when you go to bed and it’s 60 degrees but will be 40 when you wake up. You can set it to automatically drop a few degrees overnight when you’re sleeping, etc…it’s just convenient features that are obviously not needed but can make things easier

Would've loved to see something like this during the Feb freeze to keep all the poor bastards with electric heat pumps and furnaces offline so I could actually get a little juice to turn on my gas furnace.

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without their knowledge

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The agreement states that in exchange for an entry into sweepstakes, electric customers allow them to control their thermostats during periods of high energy demand.

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So not really without their knowledge.

Just pull the thermostat off the wall and bypass it by wiring R,Y,& G together. Now it may get cold in the house but it won’t shut off.