Texas power companies automatically raised the temperature of customers’ smart thermostats

A Nest thermostat is seen on a wall in a home on January 16, 2014 in Provo, Utah.

 

A Houston television station reports that Texas power companies got around the heat wave demand for more electrical power to run air conditioners by remotely raising the thermostats of their customers.

KHOU 11 reported that some of the power companies remotely adjusted the smart thermostats of their customers—-customers who said they had “unknowingly” agreed to let the companies do it in an energy-saving move.

Click here for KHOU 11 story.