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Flashback Jan. 2009: NYT: California Seeks Home Thermostat Control

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By: Marc Morano - Climate DepotSeptember 6, 2009 7:59 AM

California Seeks Thermostat Control

By Felicity Barringer

  • Jan. 11, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO — The conceit in the 1960s show “The Outer Limits” was that outside forces had taken control of your television set.

Next year in California, state regulators are likely to have the emergency power to control individual thermostats, sending temperatures up or down through a radio-controlled device that will be required in new or substantially modified houses and buildings to manage electricity shortages.


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