Installing additional capacity to make peak demand has a cost,
plain and simple. Pretty much every utility in the US has demand pricing for commercial rates, and some for residential. This reflects real world costs, and blowing that off as “greedy utilities” or similar is absurd at best.
You don’t have to like it. But the reality is as I’ve laid it out.
Now you’re repeating yourself. And repeating something that is besides the point. They make the cost up on equipment with ALL the pricing. The equipment doesn’t become unavailable off peak. That “extra” equipment allows them to maintain capacity and do off maintenance.
Yes, much like all the movie theaters charge 5 times as much as they should for a candy bar. Captive market pricing is captive market pricing. It’s not better when it’s a utility than something else.
You just made my point for me. Your cavalier attitude is exactly like there’s. It’s straight out of Goodfellas “#$%^ you pay me”. NOTHING about the cost of making the capacity excuses peak pricing. Peak pricing is simply the chance of charge more when you want. The “reality” you’ve laid out does not excuse it. It just shows you like getting buggered by the electric company.