topic Re: Feature to avoid electricity peek hours in Nest Thermostats

Feature to avoid electricity peek hours

Sbeaudry — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 23:59:16 GMT

I'm on a program with my electricity provider where my electricity is billet at 80% most of the time but for some periods during the winter I'll be billed 400% of the base rate. They are informing us 24h in advance. Those period are usually 600-900am and 500-800pm.

A feature to activate temporary a different schedule where I would be able to heat the house above normal before the high rate, reduce below normal during the peek period to avoid the system heating and returning to normal after the peek would be a nice saving.

Switching between to schedule would do this trick or even better a quick "avoid peek' hours would be even better. And why not having some AI to automatically bring the best confort temperature while avoiding the peek hours?

I would be willing to pay for such feature as it will save time and money at the end.

Is that exists?

Re: Feature to avoid electricity peek hours

Zouf — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:47:51 GMT

Sounds like one of the 2 Hydro-Quebec programs. I didn’t see any such mode, and only see a manual programming intervention to do this (early set point, drop in set point at the beginning of the saving period, return to higher set point at the end of the period, but not too early to prevent pre-heating before the period end). I’ve tried this - but honestly, “cheating” on my EV recharge during the night beats anything else :).

Re: Feature to avoid electricity peek hours

Sbeaudry — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 02:39:55 GMT

I agree. My EV is also benefiting from this for many years

Re: Feature to avoid electricity peek hours

Jenelyn_O — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:31:28 GMT

Hi folks,

@Sbeaudry, thanks for reaching out and I'm sorry for the delay. I just want to confirm if you're still encountering the issue. Please let me know as I'll be willing to assist you further.

Regards,

Jenelyn

Re: Feature to avoid electricity peek hours

Jenelyn_O — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 16:47:53 GMT

Hi Sbeaudry,

I wanted to follow up and see if you still need help. Please let me know if you are still having any concerns or questions from here, as I would be happy to take a closer look and assist you further.

Best,

Jenelyn

Re: Feature to avoid electricity peek hours

Jake — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 18:18:24 GMT

Hey there,

I wanted to check in, and let you know that I will be locking the thread in 24 hours.

Best regards,

Jake