Patent ID: 8869569

Claim:
An appliance pair, comprising: a clothes dryer for removing moisture from clothing by exposing the laundry to increased temperatures; and a clothes washer in communication with the clothes dryer, the clothes washer comprising, a housing; a basket received in the housing; a motor for selectively moving the basket relative to the housing during a wash cycle; and a controller configured to receive and process a signal indicative of the current cost of a supplied energy, the controller operating the clothes washer in one of a plurality of operating modes including at least a normal mode and an energy savings mode based on the received signal, wherein, during the energy savings mode, the controller changes the operation of the motor to modify a spin profile for the basket to include an additional spin cycle to reduce moisture content of the clothing, and wherein the clothes washer communicates the spin profile to the clothes dryer, and wherein the clothes dryer defines an operating parameter in response to the additional spin cycle in the spin profile of the clothes washer.