I see this as the root cause of the recently announced class action suit against LADWP over their implementation of tiered electricity pricing. The tiers (kwh

I see this as the root cause of the recently announced class action suit against LADWP over their implementation of tiered electricity pricing. The tiers (kwh rates) are in hunks of the a day measured in hours. But the reporting is only available to the consumer in the form of a monthly bill, so by the time you discover you were eating pixies in the Peak Cost hours the heat wave is over and your bill is already through the roof. (Any local SoCal residents please feel free to pick my analysis apart, but that was my first take when I heard about the legal action.)