VPPs offer ways to help support the grid while earning credits or reducing your power bills. Here's how smart thermostats work with them. Alexandra Jones is a CNET contributor who writes about food, ...

When the setting on Annie Maropis’ thermostat suddenly shoots up to 80 degrees, it’s because CPS Energy is keeping an eye on the Texas power grid. In an instant, the city-owned utility can ping ...

Have you ever seen your smart thermostat go rogue? Galveston, Texas, resident Shelby Rogers recently did, and discovered that her power company had manually changed her air conditioning unit to be set ...

Texas power companies remotely adjusted customers' smart thermostats, KHOU 11 reported. Customers said they had unknowingly agreed to let companies raise the temperature to save energy. Texas ...

I&M releases "Thermostat Rumble" survey to coincide with end of Energy Awareness Month and Powering the Next Energy Saving Idea - Nearly 8,000 I&M customers participated in survey about thermostat ...

Are you having problems keeping your Nest Thermostat powered up? Well according to 9to5Google, a Google Nest Power Connector is being offered by Google to help with that. This is good news for anybody ...

(WJHL) – To combat power shortages at peak usage times, Appalachian Power is offering $50 for control over smart thermostats installed in some customers’ homes. The Bring Your Own Thermostat (or Take ...

Live in Texas and notice your thermostat temperature happened to go up by itself? Some owners of smart thermostats in the Lone Star State found their pre-set temperatures were going up, all done ...

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