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Listening to the Price of Power: New thermostats could save billions

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.

Full story: http://innovations.coe.berkeley.edu/vol3-issue6-aug09/thermostat.

UC Berkeley College of Engineering
August 5, 2009

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