To keep your home cool with central air conditioning while also optimizing energy efficiency (and therefore cost), keep the temperature at 78 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
The suggestion comes from Energy Star, a federal program managed jointly by the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency that provides information to consumers about energy efficiency practices that not only save consumers money, but also improve air quality and protect the environment.
With record-breaking heat waves becoming the norm, finding ways to beat the heat without busting your budget might seem mystifying, which is why Energy Star provided consumers with a set of energy-saving recommendations on how to best manage central air conditioning in warmer spring and summer months.
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Are they f***ing crazy? 82 for sleeping? not a chance!!!
ReplyDeleteScrew that! I pay the bills and I ain't going to be warm in the summer. I keep my house at 74-72 and I love it!
ReplyDeleteWTF can sleep when it is that damn hot. Sweat running all down your nuggets and everything. I can't sleep when I am hot and sweaty.
ReplyDeleteNuggets? Lol! Never heard that one!
DeleteMight as well not have it on at all and raise the windows to let more hot air in. They are just plain crazy. If they pay for what I use then they can start telling me how to set the thermostat, until then STFU.
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ReplyDeleteWould definitely be interesting to see where their daytime thermostats were set at all of their offices!
68 Degrees in my house all year round. That's good sleeping temperature.
ReplyDeleteI like how energy companies have now changed from "we penalize you with higher prices by using energy on hotter days the way it is intended to because now we have digital meters that can check how much and WHEN you use" to "peak savings day"... flipping it around like some Jedi mind trick. Turning it into them doing us some kind of favor. Don't fall for this foolery, and DEMAND the lowest prices possible.
Homicide rates would skyrocket if women were forced to sleep at 82 degrees.
ReplyDeleteThis is the exact reason that I never signed up to have the power company control my heat and air!!!
ReplyDeleteI pay my electric bill (without any subsidies), and I will control my own temps. I DON’T NEED BIG BROTHER TELLING ME WHAT TO DO!!!
Not a choice when you live in humid hell
ReplyDeleteYou first
ReplyDeleteIf lived somewhere with low humidity like Arizona, I might understand this, but on the east coast, this is not realistic! I pay my bills and if I want to keep, my ac on at 68 at night and 75 during the day, I am going to do this!
ReplyDeleteHow dare you 826 am
Deleteyou are contributing to global warming
They obviously arent from these parts.
ReplyDeleteLeaving your windows open at night in the summer is not advisable. Between the random storms and the intense humidity the house would fee like a swamp.
For the delmarva power customers that were persuaded to have smart thermostats installed just to save a couple dollars a year, this is what's coming when the country shuts down all the nuclear power plants. Power companies want to control your heat, air conditioners, and water heaters to avoid replacing the lost power from the shuttered plants. In other words, they don't want to spend money to provide power, seen as an expense, negative numbers. All they want to see is income, positive numbers, which really looks good come bonus time.
ReplyDeleteHoly CHICKEN LITTLE Batman
Deletethis guy has it
Whose private jet was this announced from? Al Gore?
ReplyDeletesomebody take a pic of the thermostat at Delmarva power offices and Choptank offices then go downtown to the County/city building and get one there. We want to see if they are following these guidelines. I Will Not as long as i'm paying the bill. I need my beauty rest and can't sleep when its that muggy in my room. This humidity will kill people with breathing problems. Just saying! Will they pay those healthcare bills? speaking of what do they keep the temps at, at the Hospital? Nope not doing it!
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ReplyDeleteReally ? It does not get that hot here. I am always amazed when I go to a fat ass friends house and they live like refrigerated meat. Three months of night sweats would do them good.
ReplyDeleteNorthwest Woodsman: I live on an island in Puget Sound where the average daily temperature for August is 57 degrees. It was in the 50s last night and my wife, who is visiting grandchildren in Las Vegas, said it was 107 down there. We escaped from that awful place where the fires of hell bubble close to the surface, 11 years ago. I have no explanation for it, but we live close to the beach as I once did in Snow Hill, however, up here summers are very comfortable and you don’t seem to have a high level of humidity. Low 70s and sunny during the day and 50s at night. To me this is paradise.
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