Home Overview of Thermostats

If your energy management system includes one or more thermostats, you can access and manage them from within the Consumer Portal. Integrating thermostats into your energy management system allows you not only to control your thermostat from anywhere but also to schedule them to adjust your home's temperature automatically at pre-specified days, times, and temperature settings.

Working with schedules

You can use schedules to automatically adjust your home's temperature at pre-specified times. In many cases, a household would only need to have two schedules:

• Workday: On days of the week when everyone is at work or school, you can save on energy costs by turning down heat or air conditioning.
• Day off: On days of the week when everyone is home, you can make sure the home temperature is set at a comfortable level.

However, some households may have a day or two during the week that are different from these two schedules. For example, maybe you have a weekday that you work late and another that you leave work early. You could then use multiple schedules to accommodate your unique scheduling needs. In this case, for example, you might have the following schedules:

• Workday: This schedule may be set to turn down the heating/cooling in your home from 8:00am to 5:00pm on your normal workdays. In this example, you might apply this schedule to Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
• Day off: This schedule may be set to keep your home warmer or cooler during the day when you are home on your normal workdays. In this example, you might apply this schedule to Saturday and Sunday.
• Long Workday: This schedule may be set to turn down the heating/cooling in your home from 8:00am to 7:00pm on your long workday. In this example, you might apply this schedule to Wednesday.
• Short Workday: This schedule may be set to turn down the heating/cooling in your home from 8:00am to 3:00pm on your short workday. In this example, you might apply this schedule to Friday.

Remember, if you an occasion when a day does not meet the usual schedule (for example, if you take a day off from work), you can manually change the temperature setting on the Home Thermostat page.

Working with multiple thermostats (rooms or zones)

If your home has only one thermostat, then your schedule applies to your entire home. However, if your home has multiple thermostats for different rooms or zones, you can use schedules to manage each zone separately. For example, you might have the following schedules:

• Living Room: This schedule may be set to turn up the heating/cooling in your living room from 7:00pm to 10:00pm each evening, when you are home and awake.
• Bedroom: This schedule may be set to turn up the heating/cooling slightly in your bedroom from 10:00pm to 6:00am each night, when you are sleeping.

You can mix these zones in with your workday schedule too. For example, you can have a schedule turn down your heating/cooling for your entire home during the day when you are away at work. You might then have a schedule that turns your living room thermostat up in the evening, while keeping the bedroom thermostat low. Finally, you might also have a schedule that turns your bedroom thermostat up slightly overnight, while turning down the thermostat in the living room.