{"id":85440,"date":"2026-08-13T08:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85440"},"modified":"2026-08-13T08:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:24:15","slug":"she-tried-to-turn-down-her-thermostat-a-colorado-energy-company-said-she-couldnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/she-tried-to-turn-down-her-thermostat-a-colorado-energy-company-said-she-couldnt\/","title":{"rendered":"She Tried To Turn Down Her Thermostat. A Colorado Energy Company Said She Couldn\u2019t."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>11Alive.com:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>\u00a0Extreme heat is putting added strain on Colorado\u2019s electric grid, prompting Xcel Energy to ask hundreds of thousands of customers to reduce their energy use.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>For Kyri Baker, that request became more than a suggestion. Baker, an associate professor of engineering at CU Boulder, had enrolled in an Xcel program that allows the utility to adjust customers\u2019 air conditioning during periods of high demand. But during a recent stretch of extreme heat, Baker said she tried to lower the temperature in her home and found she couldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 11Alive.com: \u00a0Extreme heat is putting added strain on Colorado\u2019s electric grid, prompting Xcel Energy to ask hundreds of thousands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85441,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85440\/revisions\/85441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}