Real-Time Pricing - Caarrier ComfortChoice Edge Owner's Manual

Real-time pricing

Your utility may offer real-time pricing, which is an electric rate pricing strategy
where rates vary over short time intervals, typically hourly. You, as a con-
sumer, can benefit from real-time pricing if you are able to shift or reduce your
electric consumption during high cost periods. Your thermostat will help you do
this by notifying you when real-time pricing is in effect and automatically
adjusting your temperature setpoint by a user-selected number of degrees.
Your utility will provide you with details regarding the pricing associated with
the different pricing periods. During the different real-time pricing periods your
thermostat will display the words energy price med $$, energy price high $$$,
or peak energy price $$$$.
In addition to displaying the real-time pricing notification, the thermostat will also
automatically adjust the temperature setting of your air conditioning or heating
system in accordance with any "offsets" (setpoint adjustments) that you
program into the thermostat, as described in the section which follows. When a
real-time pricing setpoint adjustment is in effect, the words saving mode will be
displayed, in addition to the real-time pricing notification message. If this is
critical peak price, the word critical will also be displayed. In addition, the clock
display will show the time remaining in the pricing event, if that is known.
If you are uncomfortable during a real-time pricing event you always have the
power to override (cancel) the setpoint adjustment.
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