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[H]'er
06-25-2007, 11:04 AM
http://www.kcpl.com/residential/acc.html

KCP&L's ENERGY OPTIMIZER lets you optimize your home's energy efficiency. It's easy and it's free.

KCP&L customers can qualify to receive a FREE Honeywell programmable thermostat - a $300 value - installed in your home to start saving energy and money today!

Average energy savings can be from 10% to 20% annually, depending on the thermostat settings.

Where do my energy dollars go?


Take control of your energy costs
Your new thermostat will put you in control of the energy you use and the bills you pay year-round.
Set temperatures back in winter or forward in summer, effortlessly and automatically
Preset temperatures for nighttime and times when you’re away. Set to automatically return to desired comfort levels just before you wake or return
With included Internet access, the Energy Optimizer can even be programmed from the office or any remote location

Optimize energy for future generations
Energy Optimizer participants help control system peak demands during summer months. On the hottest weekday afternoons from May through September, demands on KCP&L’s system are the highest. At these times, we may either raise your temperature a few degrees, or cycle the air conditioning compressor off and on for 15-minute increments for no more than 4 hours.

Once thousands of these thermostats are in place, we’ll be able to significantly impact peak demand, thus delaying the need to invest in new generation and keep our rates as low as possible for all customers. Everybody wins!

Save the environment. By helping KCP&L to manage the growing demands on our system - and by being more energy efficient - you are conserving valuable energy resources for the future and contributing to a cleaner environment.

APPLY today - Simply call the KCP&L Energy Optimizer Hotline at 1-866-882-4429 to see if you qualify for the program. OR use our online application.

chandlben
06-25-2007, 11:21 AM
A friend of mine signed up for one of these free internet connected thermostats through the local electric company up here in Ontario, Canada and it COMPLETELY messed up his A/C and heating system to the point where it could not be turned off. Not to mention the fact that the electric company can then control the temperature set in the house. This isn't such a bad thing because I think that people can survive without turning their house into a meat cooler in the summer, but still seems a little too 'Big Brother' for me.

Just my 2 cents!

[H]'er
06-25-2007, 12:27 PM
But you can opt out of that I think.

jordan12
06-25-2007, 12:58 PM
How can they control the temp? If I am paying the bill, I will have it set to what I want..

codegrinder
06-25-2007, 01:07 PM
i don't think they control it, i think you can control it from the internet.

[H]'er
06-25-2007, 02:20 PM
No, if they are in the verge of a brown out, they can change your temp...but I don't know how they would have access to it...arn't thermostat's just plugged into the AC unit only...not to extra power, and not to the internet...?

NACZ3
06-25-2007, 02:25 PM
If you have a 2 stage system, like a heat pump and a furnace for emergency heat, be sure that the thermostat will support it. Some don't support 2 stage systems.

XerØ
06-25-2007, 03:07 PM
I just had one of these installed in my apartment in KC. The tech that came out said that they would control the thermostat using some sort of wireless connection.

There's no internet access involved that I know of.

My wife and I got it to get rid of our old craptastic 20 yr old mercury thermostat that didn't half work, and to have some sort of automated control over the temperature so that we wouldn't have to always remember to turn it up or down based on if we were going to be home that day or not. We both leave around 8:45 in the morning, so at 9:00 the thermostat kicks up a few degrees so the AC isn't on all day. It then lowers it back down at 5:00pm right before we both get home.

I don't mind if KCPL throttles us back a bit during the summer, the tech said it should never be more than 3 to 5 degrees anyway and I can live with that.

tenpinsniper
06-25-2007, 06:35 PM
They can change your temp anytime during the first year. This thermostat is not worth $300 either, more like $100 tops.

I'd rather buy my own and be comfortable.

Maddie
06-25-2007, 07:40 PM
I have this identical thermostat in my home. It was purchased at Meijers for ONLY $40.