STAR rewards you for being a bit more flexible with your smart thermostat schedule. As a participant, you help make energy cleaner and more cost-effective fore veryone -- plus you'll get a $50 Prepaid MasterCard when you enroll, and a $100 prepaid card after your first year in the program.

Here's how it works: on extremely hot or cold days, energy demand can spike. On days when we anticipate there will be a high demand for energy, STAR will schedule Flex Hours: this means we'll shift some of your energy use out of the hours when demand is highest. We'll do this by working with your thermostat to keep your home comfortable all day, while being a bit more flexible about when we warm or cool it.

By tweaking your thermostat schedule so your furnace, heat pump, or A/C use less energy during the most high-demand hours, and coordinating your energy use with other program participants', we can keep energy demand under control while keeping you comfortable.

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