Our friendly neighborhood electrical utility, Austin Energy, offers free programmable thermostats for your air conditioning, and I have been meaning to investigate getting one. Unfortunately, it continues to fall by the wayside, so by making this blog post, I am publically making a committment, to you, my faithful (and terribly bored) davidgiesberg dot com readers, to try to get one.
This thermostat sounds pretty slick and it seems that it would be a fairly “green” thing to use - the electric company has them networked up, so they can balance air conditioning units around the city in order to make sure that they are all not on at the same time. The programmable aspect of it is nice in and of itself, just because then we can “set it and forget it” rather than going around and tweaking the AC several times a day. Plus Austin Energy is preparing to roll out a feature that will let you control your air conditioner from over the internet (how cool is that?).
(This is all aside from the fact that a decent programmable thermostat runs anywhere from $40 to $100!)
The only catch for me is whether or not my apartment complex will be cool with having this thing installed….
Investigate whether or not your local electrical utility offers similar cost-saving tools, services or benefits!
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