Listening to the Price of Power: New Thermostats Could Save Billions
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 15:14
in Physics & Chemistry
A new generation of inexpensive programmable thermostats with the capacity to communicate may provide a simple and versatile tool for addressing California`s complex, billion-dollar summer peak energy demand problems. Engineering professor David Auslander -working with utility companies, engineers and policy wonks -has created a new set of design rules for the programmable communicating thermostat (PCT) that could help pave the way for greater energy efficiency in homes.