You are hugely incorrect. There are significant capital costs for installing generating capacity to produce additional on-peak power. This cost has to be reflected in pricing somehow, or you get Venezuela’s electric utility.
I am glad you are no where near capacity planning for a utility I have to depend upon.
No need for insults. Meanwhile my point stands. Sure there are costs, but those costs don’t exist solely during peak. Peak pricing is still, and always will be, taking advantage of a captive audience. Because there’s nothing we can do to NOT have our usage go up, and they know it, so they charge more. That’s the truth. And you know it.