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.
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.