If there’s one place we all want to feel in control – especially when things are feeling a bit chaotic elsewhere – it’s in our home. If you’re looking for ways to get more control over your monthly expenses by cutting down on your home energy costs, one of the smartest, “Dad-approved” moves you can make is upgrading to a smart thermostat for your electric baseboard heaters.
Unlike your old dial thermostats for baseboard heaters, smart thermostats for electric baseboards give you full control of your high voltage heating and can help you save energy and lower your monthly electricity bills. With convenient remote control, easy automation, and eligibility for utility-sponsored rebates, a smart thermostat is a relatively small investment that can pay off *big* when it comes to longer-term savings.
In this article, we’re diving into exactly how switching to smart thermostat control can help you save money on your electricity bill (and beyond), while making your life more convenient and comfortable.
Ready? Let’s go!
Table of Contents
- How Remote Control Helps You Save Energy
- Automate for Effortless Energy Savings
- Take Advantage of Rebates and Utility Programs
1. How Remote Control Helps You Save Energy
One of the biggest advantages of a smart thermostat is the ability to adjust your home’s temperature remotely. Whether you’re at work, on vacation, or just out running errands, being able to control your electric heating from your phone can lead to noticeable energy savings.
Adjust Your Heating On the Go
Picture it: you leave for work, and, during your daily commute, it hits you: you forgot to turn down your dial thermostats AGAIN. As you shake your fist at the sky, you know that you’ll be wasting energy all day and you’ll feel the hit on your electricity bill – and you can’t do anything about it.
With a smart thermostat like Mysa for Electric Baseboard Heaters, it doesn’t matter where you are when you remember that you left your electric baseboard heaters cranked up – you can simply open the easy-to-use, 100% FREE Mysa app and turn the temperature down with a quick tap.
Prevent Energy Wastage While You’re Away
Heading out of town for a much-needed weekend getaway, or packing for extended travel for work or play? Worrying about coming home to a sky-high electricity bill from unnecessary heating use while you’re gone is the last thing you need. Smart thermostats for your high voltage electric baseboard heaters or your allow you to easily “Away" modes that lower energy use while you’re gone, preventing expensive and unnecessary heating costs.
Pssssst – did you know that you can also save energy and money by swapping out your ductless mini-split heat pump’s old LCD remote for a smart controller for ductless A/C?
Ditching your old, frustrating AC remote and switching to smart control allows you to adjust temperatures from your phone and ensure that your mini-split heat pump is not running unnecessarily and costing you a bundle.
Monitor Your Energy Use for Smarter Decisions
Smart thermostats like Mysa for Electric Baseboard Heaters V2 feature real-time energy use tracking, showing you exactly how much energy you are using room-by-room. For example, Mysa’s Monthly Energy Report is a handy snapshot of your energy consumption for each month using your Mysas.
You receive a personalized report every month detailing how much energy you used, a percentage-based comparison to your previous month’s use, and the impact each of your Mysas had on your total energy consumption when it comes to your energy bill. In other words, adding Mysa smart thermostat control for your baseboard heaters not only helps you see your energy usage, but also helps you make smarter real-time decisions about how to lower your energy costs while staying perfectly comfortable – with little to no effort.
2. Automate for Effortless Energy Savings
Smart thermostats do more than just let you control the temperature remotely – they can automate your energy use to suit your daily routines and ensure that you’re not paying to heat your home unnecessarily.
Create Convenient Heating Schedules
With a smart thermostat like Mysa LITE for Electric Baseboard Heaters, you can set up a heating schedule that aligns perfectly with your daily routine. Whether you’re working from home, living that hybrid office life, busy with shift or rotational work hours, or out and about with the kids (or grandkids), you can program your smart thermostat to deliver the cozy comfort you need, exactly when you need it, without breaking the bank.
Gone are the days of running around your house adjusting multiple dial thermostats manually – or dealing with the stress and worry of forgetting to do so! Life just gets easier when you can schedule heating to create your perfect balance between comfort and savings, regardless of where your day takes you.
Integrate with Your Smart Home
If your new life motto is “Home is where the smart is”, switching to smart control for electric baseboard heaters is a no-brainer. Most highly-rated smart thermostats, like Mysa V2 and Mysa LITE for baseboards, feature seamless integration with the robot bestie of your choice – of course we’re talking about leading smart home platforms and voice assistants like Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit!
By connecting your Mysa smart baseboard thermostats to your smart home, you can control your heating with voice commands or even set up automations with other smart devices. Imagine telling your thermostat to lower the temperature when your smart lights turn off at night, without leaving your cozy bed – talk about game-changing convenience!
3. Take Advantage of Rebates and Utility Programs
Because saving money matters to us all, it’s important to understand that the benefits of a smart thermostat can go beyond immediate savings on your electricity bill. Many utility companies offer smart thermostat rebates and other financial incentives that can help you offset your initial purchase cost AND help set you up for lower long-term utility costs. Talk about a win-win savings scenario!
Save Money On Smart Thermostats with Rebates
As the focus on combatting climate change through electrification makes stabilizing the electrical grid an increasingly vital priority, more electrical utility providers, retailers, and governments than ever are offering smart thermostat rebates to residential consumers. These initiatives don’t just help reduce the cost of purchasing smart thermostats for your home – they also help you become more energy-efficient AND help you increase the value of your home with virtually zero effort.
When considering an upgrade to your home’s high voltage electric heating control, the smart move is first look for rebates on smart thermostats that may be available in your area. A few minutes of your time spent researching can add up to some seriously cozy upfront cost savings!
Earn Rewards Through Demand Response Programs
As the global focus on combatting climate change makes stabilizing the electrical grid an increasingly vital priority, innovative, consumer-led utility Demand Response programs are gaining traction. In a nutshell – smart thermostat users are incentivized by their utility provider to use slightly less energy during peak use times, which helps stabilize the electrical grid and reduce our collective reliance on costly, fossil fuel-burning peaker plants.
By choosing to participate in Demand Response programs, your eligible smart thermostats can automatically adjust your heating during high-demand periods in exchange for rebates or bill credits, putting more money back in your pocket – and turning you into a planet-saving superhero!
Automate Your Savings with Time of Use Pricing
Smart thermostats can help you save money on electricity costs by automatically adjusting your home's temperature based on time-of-use (TOU) and other similar utility pricing models. By programming your smart thermostat to use less energy during peak hours when electricity rates are highest (and heat more during lower-cost, off-peak times) smart thermostats help you cut your electricity bills while keeping your home consistently comfortable.
10/10 Dads agree: ditching your dial thermostats and switching to smart baseboard heater control is one of the easiest and most effective ways to save money on your home energy costs! With convenient remote heating control, hassle-free automated scheduling, and access to cost-cutting rebates, a smart thermostat takes the stress out of your home heating home and puts control and energy savings *literally* at your fingertips.
Thinking about switching to smart control for baseboard heaters? Check your compatibility with award-winning Mysa Smart Thermostats today and start your savings journey today!