Where Should Texans Set Their Thermostat for Ideal Energy Savings?
The first official day of summer is a couple days away, and Texas power grid is already under strain. ERCOT, the operators of this strained power grid, asked Texans this week to set their thermostats at 78 degrees to help conserve electricity and prevent rolling blackouts. My sense of the Texan spirit is that, as a rule, we dont enjoy being told what to do. I also think most of us really value a humming air conditioner in the summertime, when its 95 degrees outside with a heat index that wouldnt seem out of place on the surface of the Sun. Throw in suspicions that the people running ERCOT arent joining in the collective sacrifice of sweating it out on behalf of our woeful infrastructure, and Id imagine many of us arent too eager to comply with the agencys suggestion.