Sorry I stated my original point poorly, and it wasn't exactly what you were saying. My bad. Demand response for A/C tends to look more like pre-cooling before

Sorry I stated my original point poorly, and it wasn't exactly what you were saying. My bad. Demand response for A/C tends to look more like pre-cooling before the hottest hours, then reduce demand during the hottest hours. So it's not about shifting demand towards maximum production, but rather shifting demand away from the demand peak (aka, peak shaving). So it's similar but a little different. >Practically I don't think the utility companies are going to cut them in on a big enough part of the profits to incentivize them to do so. The commercial version of what I stated in the previous paragraph (ie, demand response/peak shaving) empirically already happens, and has non-trivial dollars attached to it. Again, maybe not exactly what you're talking about, but it rhymes.