{"id":20256,"date":"2026-10-03T12:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20256"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:08:55","slug":"how-i-kept-cool-with-nycs-free-battery-program-for-window-ac-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20256","title":{"rendered":"How I kept cool with NYC&#8217;s free battery program for window AC units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:0 0 1em; padding:0.6em 0.9em; border:1px solid #d0d7de; border-radius:6px; background:#f6f8fa; color:#444; font-size:0.9em;\"><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong> The opening of an article from Ars Technica. Read the original for the full story.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\"><strong>Ars Technica &bull;<br \/>\n                    Jeremy Hsu<br \/>\n                 &bull; October 2, 2026<\/strong><\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>My family has spent four summers participating in demand response programs whereby utility companies pay customers to reduce energy use on the hottest summer days. Most summers have involved carefully precooling our New York City apartment before switching off the air conditioners and sweating it out during the designated demand response periods.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But this year, we kept our window air conditioners running throughout a heat dome event that drove daytime temperatures into the triple digits and made the nights oppressively hot.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top:2em; padding:1em; border-left:4px solid #0073aa; background:#f5f7fa;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> Ars Technica &bull;<br \/>\n                    Jeremy Hsu<br \/>\n                 &bull; October 2, 2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0.5em 0 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/10\/how-i-kept-cool-with-nycs-free-battery-program-for-window-ac-units\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the original article at Ars Technica &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: The opening of an article from Ars Technica. Read the original for the full story. Ars Technica &bull; Jeremy Hsu &bull; October 2, 2026 My family has spent four summers participating in demand response programs whereby utility companies pay customers to reduce energy use on the hottest summer days. Most summers have involved carefully<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20256\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}