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How the hell will they regulate this? Just moving the thermostat to a hotter spot will keep the inside temperature below 27°C, while the 'setting' will be the "correct"/legal.

Otherwise... I think it's sad, how we've gone from great economy to being hot inside shops in a year....

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It won't be perfect, but you will have a fair amount of places where it can and will be implemented. Our research centre has central A/C and they announced the change a few days ago.

Social pressure is likely enough. Most social rules do not require enforcement beyond the outliers.

I'm pretty sure most of the people prefer cooler shopping center and falling governments, than obeying corrupt politicians and being hot everywhere.

A few politicians decided to print a bunch of money, and we got the economic crisis, and now a few politicians are in a dick measuring contest with A LOT of taxpayers money and a bunch of dead ukranians, and again, the normal people suffer due to the energy crisis.

Yeah!! Let's stick it to the corrupt politicians by running AC all day and... running out of power I guess???

Ha - I had a college roommate who would heat up a pan and place it near the "locked" thermostat to ensure the AC stayed on for hours at a time.

The same way we regulate toilet flush volume in the US.

Over time I'd expect that they legislate in custom-to-spain thermostats that simply don't go lower than 27.

These rules never need to be perfect. Just enough to reduce energy usage.

People will report them.

They force shopping centres to show a thermometer where it can be seen.

How can I do this in a hotel? Some hotels don't have a temperature setting above 24 and my ideal is 26. Is the thermostat also the thing that shows the actual temperature or is it somewhere else. Fwiw, it's usually a Honeywell system in hiltons i believe.

The Spanish are by far the most politically timid population in Europe. Regulations are follow diligently regardless of how pointless.

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