California Wants to Regulate Your Home Temperature

[Toro]

This is ridiculous.

As some of you may already know, the California Energy Commission has proposed amendments to its standards for building energy efficiency. These standards include a requirement that any new or modified heating or air conditioning system will have to include a thermostat whose set point can be remotely controlled by government authorities who would be empowered to lower (in winter) or raise (in summer) your thermostat's temperature set point during "emergency events."

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State abandons plan to allow utilities to control home thermostats

Sacramento - -- State officials have ditched a plan to require remote-controlled thermostats in homes and businesses.

Regulators instead will work with utilities on possible voluntary programs by which customers could request such devices, California Energy Commission spokeswoman Claudia Chandler said Tuesday.