Never heard of it. I live in LaQuinta. We keep our air at 80 and turn it down to 78 to sleep. Guess the tile floors keeps it cool in the house. I am originally from IL (left 3 years ago) and we kept it at 73 in the summer.

Yes, SCE has that and we signed up for it when we lived there. To my knowledge they never had to use it the time we lived there and signed up for it, but we were prepared. It is lower the bill and it did work. We were in LA county. You can check, but I think they don't actually turn it off, just a brown out.

We have that for the summer months. Once in a while I notice it, but those are only on the really hot days. They give you service only everyother 15 minute segment of time. For that little bit of inconvience we get 15% off our whole electric bill for all 3 or 4 ??? months. I think it is a great deal!

i am not an A/C fan, even thou i live in sunny hot orlando, but i would never ever do this. i already know for fact how this works. yrs ago DH allowed his father to move in w/ us because he could not care for himself and his dad paid the electric bill. well his dad promptly signed up for this 'energy saving' program and the A/C was off from 8am-6pm...well since i worked 5 days a week on 12 hr schedules & i was gone 15 hrs a day LOL but it took forever for our townhouse to get anywhere near 80 at night. it would have been even worse if i was not working outside in the blazing fl sun all day and 80 was long sleeve temps to me lol.

here we are in the mid 90's from may thru nov so it can get quite hot in a house w/o A/C by 9 am for most people. we do the averaging program and save $$ on it. dh pays utilities and is lucky i'm comfy at 80-82 during the day w/ ceiling fans running and 74-75 at night :-) he was miserable at our old house w/ that energy program his dad did. atleast i know we'll never do that in this house. i don't believe it saves you much $$ when your A/C has to run extra hard trying to cool down a hot house in the evenings, not to mention the wear on the A/C ~ liz

Yes, it is only operated during the business day (supposedly while people are at work) but ours does not work like you are saying, Liz.

Ours runs according to the thermostat for 15 min. then it is shut off for 15 min, then back on again. It doesn't keep as cool in here, but it is comfortable. We keep ours set between 76 and 78 in the summer and DH thinks it is too cold.

We are retired and at home most of the time. On the hottest days we prefer to stay home, so we do notice whether it is on or off.

Hi Rita, DH & I have talked about doing this. It surely gives a nice saving, and I believe they only shut it off for a short period of time. Gosh, that would be nothing compared to the years and years we had no A/C. My DH fears it will harm the A/C, but I doubt it. Maybe I'll talk to him again about it.

By the way, Rita, Edison also has a deal out where you can get at least a $50 rebate for getting the A/C tuned up. It was in our recent bill. We're going to get that done, and we can ask the A/C guy about the Edison deal to save by having the A/C shut off occasionally.

I saw that too, socks, I'm afraid that they will tell us we need a new unit!! (which we do, it's original to the house!! 1977!!) Can't afford that right now. LOL.
That's a good idea, though.