In Southern Nevada NVEnergy has a similar program. The program offered here is opt-in and basically gives you a discount if you allow them to turn your thermos

In Southern Nevada NVEnergy has a similar program. The program offered here is opt-in and basically gives you a discount if you allow them to turn your thermostat up a few degrees a few times a year on very high-demand, "Energy Event" days, or so the marketing material reads at least. Apparently you can even override the bump-up in temperature if you desire, but I believe you lose some or all of the cost savings if you override it. They even offer a similar-to-Nest thermostat, free of charge IIRC, called "mPowered" -- it seems to be quite similar to Nest with web-accessible functionality, programming, etc. -- and the price point is obviously much lower. Good play by Nest and/or Google here IMO, especially since not sharing the user data means the utilities continue to have to pay Nest for the ability to interface with their devices long-term. FWIW, I strongly suspect it would be similar to the NVEnergy program -- opt-in only, and likely with the ability to override energy events / forced thermostat settings. That said, very intriguing and interesting "pivot" of sorts. NVEnergy's mPowered - https://www.nvenergy.com/home/saveenergy/rebates/mpowered/index.cfm https://www.nvenergy.com/home/saveenergy/rebates/mpowered/in... NVEnergy's "Cool Share" Program - https://www.nvenergy.com/home/saveenergy/rebates/coolshare.cfm https://www.nvenergy.com/home/saveenergy/rebates/coolshare.c... PS - I opted for Nest thermostats, just so convenient and they look incredibly cool on the wall. ;-)