That's the wild card, is the price of various types of heat.
My home is natural gas, with no electric emergency heat. I
hadn't thought of that.

I did ask about energy, but the different prices is a very
important thought.

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"Tony" wrote in message
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In most applications it saves energy to turn it down.
However if you
have a heat pump, and to get the house warmed up again it
goes to
emergency heat, then it can cost more. If you can turn off
the
emergency heat and wait a long time for the heat pump to
catch up, then
you will save energy. The worst case is electric emergency
heat, gas
emergency heat may or may not save money depending on the
price and
efficiency of the furnace. Although it just occurred to me
that you
asked about conserving *energy* and not *money* so that may
mean that no
mater what your heating system is, turning it down then up
again will
always save *energy*... I think?