{"id":7266,"date":"2021-06-22T08:57:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T12:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7266"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:49:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:49:13","slug":"texas-residents-regret-plan-that-raises-thermostat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/texas-residents-regret-plan-that-raises-thermostat\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Residents Regret Plan That Raises Thermostat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some Texas residents expressed regret at their decision to participate in the program, which allows companies to remotely adjust the temperature of their smart thermostats by a few degrees at high energy levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An energy company called CenterPoint Energy says it also conducts twice-yearly tests that raise the temperature of homes for three hours, the last of which took place last Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As they filed their complaint via a Reddit thread, residents in the Houston area questioned the temperature changes and also disputed the likelihood that users will be automatically registered or register themselves without reading the details.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2021\/06\/texans-regret-opting-into-power-plan-that-remotely-raises-thermostat-temps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Arstechnica.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas residents regret their decision to participate in the program, which allows companies to remotely adjust the temperature of their thermostat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7288,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7266\/revisions\/7288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}