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2022-09-01 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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Nanny State Test: CO Company Locks Thermostats of 22K Customers, Cites 'Energy Emergency'
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[PJMedia]  For many Americans, the summer of 2022 has been a blistering hot and humid miserable existence. It’s just one of those years when one truly appreciates the comfort provided by something as simple as an air conditioning unit. How did we live without them?
But for some 22,000 Xcel Energy customers in Colorado who wanted to be a little more comfortable on Tuesday when the thermometer was pegged at 90+ degrees, a bizarre message flashed on their thermostats indicating they’d lost the ability to control the temperature in their own homes.
According to KMGH-TV, "Energy Emergency" was part of the message that flashed on thermostats as temperatures skyrocketed and Xcel customers desperately tried to crank the A/C.
"Temperature locked temporarily during energy emergency. Due to a rare energy emergency that may affect the local energy grid, your temperature slider has been changed from 8:00 pm — 8:00 pm because you enrolled in a Community Energy Savings Program," the full message read.
However, customers enrolled in the otherwise innocent-sounding "program," like Tony Talarico, had absolutely no idea they could lose full control of the ability to cool down their house during a nasty heat wave.
"Normally, when we see a message like that, we’re able to override it," Talarico said, according to KMGH-TV. "In this case, we weren’t. So, our thermostat was locked in at 78 or 79."
"To me, an emergency means there is, you know, life, limb, or, you know, some other danger out there — some, you know, massive wildfires," Talarico said. "Even if it’s a once-in-a-blue-moon situation, it just doesn’t sit right with us to not be able to control our own thermostat in our house," Talarico continued. The news outlet added that some customers’ homes reached a disgusting 88 degrees.
What a nightmare.
What was the "emergency" Xcel used to snatch away control from its customers? The company said it was due to an outage in Pueblo, Colo., combined with the heat wave and subsequent heavy use of air conditioning. One might assume a large energy company would have been prepared for some late summer heat.
Xcel has always been a shitty energy company. Glad I don't have to use them anymore now that I've moved out of the metro area. 
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