BradHN1
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3 years ago Added by Hilli Passas from Wellesley:
on the topic of adjusting the thermostat by season, this company may be able to give you some guidance. They do energy modeling for large buildings (hospitals, businesses) and help them save a lot of money by making incremental adjustments to their climate controls. They may have some data, even if only for large buildings
vschiniah
Idea from Ellen Sachs Leicher:
calculations as to the energy impact and carbon footprint (on average) of decreasing the level of comfortableness - for example, keeping the thermostat a degree or so lower in winter and a degree or so higher in summer.
Uli responds: there are numbers out there about the decrease in energy cost for lowering thermostat temperatures in the winter and raising them in the summer (2-3% for a two degree change, is one I remember reading), they are surprisingly substantial and could be calculated “backwards" to the reduction in energy/ carbon emissions? This article just came across my desk making that point - it does not specify numbers though: https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2021/08/02/5-simple-ways-to-save-energy-and-money-at-your.html