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For starters - many of the utilities charge more for daytime and "peak" usage hours in the TOU plans. Which is also when they're overproducing solar and having

• lazide 2y ago
  Plenty of logic if you assume their goal is to be paid as much $$ as possible, while throwing up the maximum smokescreen possible. Near as I can tell, the CPUC is in on it for many reasons. Some, like PG&E being paying the tab on their numerous past misdeeds without formally declaring bankruptcy/putting the state on the hook. But also if for no other reason than it's the only way the various green mandates can actually be hit, since costs to actually deliver a kwh when needed are far, far higher and require much larger capital outlays than the public would be willing to accept if it was obvious to them. It's frog boiling/gaslighting the public - 'oh it won't cost anything extra - it'll probably save us money!', 'oh, we might need to add some restrictions', 'oh it won't cost that much more really, it will be worth it', 'oh, you've already paid for most of it, it will just be a bit extra', 'oh, yeah it is a bit expensive but what are you going to do about it', etc. For some reason it seems to work REALLY well in California.