Amazing, we were a first world nation, now we are "engineered" to save $ by being bound to different hours of power. At one time if you wanted to save money you could simply turn up or down the thermostat by personal choice. Not a criticism of you, if I could I would do "smart hours" and keep my old thermostat in hibernation but a choice between discomfort some of the time or be punished.We're on smart hours here too. In summer during the high cost times, I have it set to where the AC won't come on until the rates come down.
No big deal: precool the house to 71, AC shuts of at 2pm. Run ceiling fans until 7pm. AC comes back on.
Sometimes it gets up to 80-ish before the AC kicks back on, but I can handle it for an hour.
If you think it's hot in here, go sit on the porch.
Having said that, I still have old thermostat sitting on a shelf in the garage. OGE tries to control my Smarthours thermostat once, the old one goes back on the wall.
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