General Thermostat Operation

You can save money on your heating and cooling bills by simply
resetting your thermostat when you are asleep or away from home. You can do
this automatically without sacrificing comfort by installing an automatic
setback or programmable thermostat.

Using a programmable thermostat, you can adjust the times you
turn on the heating or air-conditioning according to a pre-set schedule.
Programmable thermostats can store and repeat multiple daily settings (six or
more temperature settings a day) that you can manually override without
affecting the rest of the daily or weekly program.

You can easily save energy in the winter by setting the
thermostat to 68°F while you're awake and setting it lower while you're asleep
or away from home. By turning your thermostat back 10° to 15° for 8 hours, you
can save 5% to 15% a year on your heating bill -- a savings of as much as 1%
for each degree if the setback period is eight hours long. The percentage of
savings from setback is greater for buildings in milder climates than for those
in more severe climates.

In the summer, you can follow the same strategy with central air
conditioning by keeping your house warmer than normal when you are away, and
lowering the thermostat setting to 78°F (26°C) only when you are at home and
need cooling. Although thermostats can be adjusted manually, programmable
thermostats will avoid any discomfort by returning temperatures to normal
before you wake or return home.

A common misconception associated with thermostats is that a
furnace works harder than normal to warm the space back to a comfortable
temperature after the thermostat has been set back, resulting in little or no
savings. In fact, as soon as your house drops below its normal temperature, it
will lose energy to the surrounding environment more slowly. The lower the
interior temperature, the slower the heat loss will be. So the longer your
house remains at the lower temperature, the more energy you save, because your house has lost less energy than it would have at the higher temperature. The same concept applies to raising your thermostat setting in the summer -- a higher interior temperature will slow the flow of heat into your house, saving energy on air conditioning.

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