![]() “I spoke to one elderly lady and she that her air conditioning is just so expensive to run. Colonel Ivan Wild, commander of the organization’s southwest division, said some of the people visiting now can’t afford their electricity bills or don’t have adequate air conditioning. The Salvation Army has some 11 cooling stations across the Phoenix area. She keeps fans running and has a cooling bed for Rigley, and they both try to get by until the utility’s official peak hours pass. Through trial and error, Rabany found that 83 F is a temperature she is willing to tolerate to keep her utility bill down.īy tracking the on-peak and off-peak schedule of her utility, Arizona Public Service, with the help of her NEST smart thermostat, Rabany keeps her home that hot from 4 to 7 p.m., the most expensive hours. Yet some are cutting back on AC, trying to bear the heat, afraid of the high electricity bills that will soon arrive.Ĭamille Rabany, 29, has developed her own system to keep herself and her 10-month-old Saint Bernard Rigley cool during the Arizona heat wave. ![]() “This level of heat that we are having in Phoenix right now is enormously dangerous, particularly for people who either don’t have air conditioning or cannot afford to operate their air conditioner,” said Evan Mallen, a senior analyst for Georgia Institute of Technology’s Urban Climate Lab. Bean knows this not only from his research, he also experienced it firsthand this weekend when his air conditioner broke. When a cloudless sky combines with outdoor temperatures over 100 F, your house turns into an “air fryer” or “broiler,” as the roof absorbs powerful heat and radiates it downward, said Jonathan Bean, co-director of the Institute for Energy Solutions at the University of Arizona. Air conditioning, which made modern Phoenix even possible, is a lifeline. ![]() Temperatures have peaked at or above 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) the entire month of July in Phoenix.
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