All the power companies in California instituted what they call “Time of Use” billing and forced everyone in to it, you can opt out, at least it was easy to go back to “Standard Billing” when it started, It’s a lot harder now because saving the planet costs money and they strongly discourage yo from switching back. I get regular emails letting me know that “time of Use” is much better and I should switch back...
People on Time of use billing are paying at least 3 times that of Standard billing customers for their electricity.
Where I live we have $.065 per KWH. AC? Crank that baby down!