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Heating Your Home Overnight | Thursday, December 8, 2011

Question: I'm wondering if you can settle a family disagreement. To conserve energy, I want to turn the heat in our home down at night. However my husband thinks it takes just as much energy to bring the temperature back up in the morning than it does to keep the temperature higher throughout the night. Who is right?

We hope you have something really nice riding on this bet, because you win! Setting your thermostat back from 21 degrees to 16 degrees at night can result in energy savings of up to 10 percent.

We encourage the use of programmable thermostats that automatically adjust the temperature set points at pre-set times. This way the thermostat will automatically turn down the heat at night or when the home is empty and turn it up again when you are home.