ecobee’s New Home Energy Reports Empower Smarter Homes

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ecobee has launched Home Energy Reports, a new feature in their app that helps customers track and optimize their home's heating and cooling system energy usage. The feature provides detailed insights, allowing users to monitor energy consumption, compare usage with their community, and identify potential system issues. Available from December 11, 2024, this free software update will be accessible to all ecobee Smart Thermostat customers using iOS 16+ or Android 10+. The tool aims to simplify energy efficiency monitoring and help homeowners make informed decisions about their HVAC systems.

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• Introduction of new value-added feature for existing customers at no additional cost
• Expansion of product functionality through software update, enhancing customer value proposition
• Potential for increased customer engagement and retention through new monitoring capabilities

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Easy-to-use feature helps ecobee customers track and optimize home energy use and savings

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ecobee has introduced Home Energy Reports, a new feature in the ecobee app that helps customers understand the direct impact of their home’s heating and cooling system’s energy use and makes it easy to understand opportunities to improve energy efficiency and savings. The new feature allows customers to make smarter and more sustainable decisions about their home.

ecobee Home Energy Reports help customers understand the direct impact of their home’s heating and cooling system’s energy use (Photo: Business Wire)

ecobee Home Energy Reports will become available to all ecobee Smart Thermostat customers, providing detailed insights to help monitor energy usage from their home’s heating and cooling system, identify potential system issues, and compare energy consumption to others in their community, right in the ecobee app. Homeowners want to better understand how their heating and cooling runtime impacts their home’s energy costs and potential savings but accessing the data on their own can be complicated and frustrating. Home Energy Reports answers that call with a detailed, intuitive solution that gives customers access to important data in one place.

"With Home Energy Reports, we’re providing our customers with the ability to easily observe and monitor the heating and cooling activity in their homes," said Bryan Hurren, VP, Product & Design at ecobee. "From monitoring their home’s energy usage to determining how efficient their heating and cooling system is, we are helping homeowners gain a better understanding of their HVAC system and make informed decisions about their home."

ecobee Home Energy Reports showcase how customers’ energy savings compare to others in their state or province. A home’s energy efficiency rank provides insight into the relative energy efficiency of a home’s heating and cooling system, identifying potential to improve energy savings and encouraging more sustainable energy decisions while fostering a sense of community. If ecobee alerts a homeowner about a concern with their heating and cooling system, they will now be able to review HVAC runtime, temperature and humidity data all in one place to help assess if there is an issue and accelerate time to resolve it with support.

Home Energy Reports will begin rolling out as a free software update in the ecobee app for all ecobee Smart Thermostat customers using iOS 16 or later and Android 10 or later on December 11, 2024. For more information, please visit https://www.ecobee.com/en-us/smart-thermostats/.

About ecobee

ecobee Inc. was founded in 2007 with a mission to improve everyday life while creating a more sustainable world. Since launching the world’s first smart thermostat, ecobee has helped customers across North America save more than 27.8 TWh of energy, which is the equivalent of taking all the homes in Los Angeles and Chicago off the grid for a year. Today, ecobee continues to innovate with smart home solutions that solve everyday problems with comfort, security, and conservation in mind. With ecobee’s products, including the award-winning Smart Thermostat Premium, ecobee continues to encourage Smart Owners to imagine what home could be. ecobee is a part of Generac Holdings Inc. (NYSE: GNRC), a leading global designer and manufacturer of energy technology solutions, and other power products. Generac and ecobee share a vision to deliver a cleaner and more sustainable energy future for customers and communities. The Generac and ecobee home of the future will be more comfortable, resilient, and efficient. For more information, visit ecobee.com.

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Sam Evans

press@ecobee.com

Source: ecobee

FAQ

When will ecobee's Home Energy Reports feature be available?

The Home Energy Reports feature will be available from December 11, 2024, as a free software update for all ecobee Smart Thermostat customers.

What are the system requirements for ecobee's new Home Energy Reports?

Users need to have iOS 16 or later, or Android 10 or later, and an ecobee Smart Thermostat to access the Home Energy Reports feature.

What features are included in ecobee's Home Energy Reports?

The feature includes energy usage monitoring, community usage comparisons, system efficiency rankings, and HVAC system issue detection with relevant data analysis.