Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. Ever feel like the controls on your thermostat might as well be hieroglyphics? We hear you. Whether you have a ...

CR’s recommended thermostats—from brands like Emerson and Honeywell Home—are easy to program, and they can help you trim ...

Did you know that heating and cooling your home are responsible for up to half of your energy consumption? What's more, if you're not careful, it's easy to waste a lot of that delightfully conditioned ...

No one likes paying for things they don’t use. That’s why we don’t leave the lights on throughout the house when we’re sleeping and why we turn off the TV when no one’s watching it. Yet despite their ...

This weekend, as clocks are set back and smoke and carbon monoxide detector batteries are changed, homeowners should add one more quick and easy task to their Turn Back the Clocks to-do list: program ...

Your thermostat offers two critical fan settings that dramatically impact energy consumption: “on” and “auto” modes. Most homeowners leave their fan setting on “on” without understanding the financial ...