Ease of Install: Very Easy
Other Notes: In the winter, set the thermostat between 65 and 70 degrees during the day and to 58 degrees at night or when away from home for several hours. Keeping the temperatures at 70 degrees is recommended for homes where there are elderly or infants.
If you’re getting a tad cold, put on some slippers, sweat pants and a long sleeved jacket. Cuddling up under a blanket keeps the warmth in as well.
6 comments:
There could be no better investment in America than to invest in America becoming energy independent! We need to utilize everything in out power to reduce our dependence on foreign oil including using our own natural resources. Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. OPEC will continue to cut production until they achieve their desired 80-100. per barrel. The high cost of fuel this past year seriously damaged our economy and society. Oil is finite. We are using oil globally at the rate of 2X faster than new oil is being discovered. We need to take some of these billions in bail out bucks and bail ourselves out of our dependence on foreign oil.If all gasoline cars, trucks, and SUV's instead had plug-in electric drive trains, the amount of electricity needed to replace gasoline is about equal to the estimated wind energy potential of the state of North Dakota. Jeff Wilson has a really good new book out called The Manhattan Project of 2009 Energy Independence Now. He explores our uses of oil besides gasoline, our depletion, out reserves and stores as well as viable options to replace oil.Oil is finite, it will run out in the not too distant future. WE need to take some of these billions in bail out bucks and bail America out of it's dependence on foreign oil. The historic high price of gas this past year did serious damage to our economy and society. WE should never allow others to have that much power over our economy again. I wish every member of congress would read this book too.
www.themanhattanprojectof2009.com
If you're reducing your thermostat to save yourself money - good! If your reducing your thermostat to "save the planet" - you're just being foolish. Let's all follow the lead of our new Prez - why suffer? - we should all be able to grow orchids in our homes at night. 58 degrees at night is WAY too low.
Ok, so we hang our clothes out to dry, we installed a programmable thermostat, bought an HE washer, turned the hot water heater down, switched to CFL's and now my monthly bill is double. Just explain this to me! Dominion Power is just ripping us off. The more we do to conserve, the more you charge me.
No one is happy with higher bills. While we don't know the details of your bill, there are a couple of factors to consider.
First, there was an 18 percent increase last summer because of higher commodity fuel prices for things like coal, natural gas and uranium that we use in our power stations to generate electricity. Those prices had been skyrocketing for years and it was our first fuel rate adjustment since 2004. (For more information, see dom.com/about/companies/vapower/fuelrate.jsp)
Virginia law does not allow us to make a profit on fuel charges, only to be reimbursed for our costs. Also by law, the fuel charge is allowed to adjust only once a year. The next adjustment is scheduled to take effect in July and should reflect the reductions that have occurred in commodity fuel prices over the past several months. Other than fuel adjustments, Dominion's rates haven't gone up since 1992 except for about $1.50 a month for a typical residential customer to cover initial costs of a new power station in Southwest Virginia.
I should mention that our rates are regulated by the Virginia State Corporation Commission, and you may contact them at www.scc.virginia.gov/pue/elec.aspx.
In general, over the last 15 years, our rates have consistently stayed significantly below the rise in the cost of living as measured by the Consumer Price Index, and below the average cost of electricity nationally.
It therefore seems hard to understand why your bill would have increased so dramatically, especially in light of your commendable efforts to conserve. Since December and January were particularly cold this year and led to higher heating bills generally, weather could account for the increase, but it might be other factors. If you would like us to review your bill and see if we can spot a problem, please e-mail us at corporate.communications@dom.com.
Thank you for your comment.
I purchased a programmable thermostat. It is great because I can have the temperature set lower during the days while the ambient temperature outside is higher and higher at night when the temperature is lower and I am sleeping. When I know that I am leaving on vacation it has a feature that allows it to be set lower or higher (depending on the season) so that it is saving me money by not operating the system as it would if I were home. Once the duration time is completed it returns to the normal program so that on the day I return the temperature is back to the original program. The thermostat was not too expensive and I installed it myself using the vendor supplied instruction. It has a batter back up in case the power goes out for some reason.
I actually sell one type of Thermostat. It's energy efficient and saves money. I've been told by so many people that it's such a great product and it's easy to use and assemble. It's a Thermostat that keeps the heat at 71 and in the winter the A/C doesn't go any lower then 76. It's also completely tamper proof. A lot of our customers complain about their tenants setting the heat to 85 in the winter and then opening the window because they claim they are too hot. It makes no sense! Thought I would let you know about it. We do have a website at landlordstat.com
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