- June 21, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
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- Texas power companies remotely adjusted the temperature of customers’ smart thermometers, KHOU 11 reported.
- Customers had unknowingly enrolled in a promotion letting companies raise the temperature to save energy.
- Texas regulators asked residents last week to conserve energy amid an early summer heat wave.
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Texas power companies heated up some customers’ homes last week by remotely controlling their smart thermostats, KHOU 11 reported on Thursday.
Some residents in the state, which is facing a heat wave that’s straining its power grid, told KHOU 11 that they had awoken sweating and shocked that their homes had gotten as hot as 78 degrees without them changing the temperature.
It turns out that they had unknowingly enrolled their thermostats in an energy…
