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Thermostat Control: Your Choice Or Theirs?
A proposed bill could give control over Ohioans’ (Smart) thermostats. This “demand management” scheme is being presented as a way to manage the growing energy demand data centers are/will be placing on our energy grid, along with the usual “climate change” fear mongering and our need to ration energy usage. Supporters view the bill as a must to prepare for future energy strain, while detractors call the bill an intrusion of privacy and normalization of scarcity.
HB 427 – introduced by Rep. Roy Klopfenstein (R-Haviland) and currently sitting in committee – is based upon the idea that Ohio energy companies should reserve the right to arbitrarily decide when to raise customers’ thermostats during the hottest days and/or cycle a customer’s use of water heaters, laundry machines, and dishwashers.
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