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Or just charge people the actual price, rather than some hodge-podge of pre-defined rates based on Time of Day.

Yes, it will be complicated, but these providers also think we all care about itemization of generation, transmission, distribution, power factor, grid line loss and debt retirement charges. I don’t, all I care about is fixed cost and variable cost.

Maybe let people overpay through some hedging contract if they prefer to pay an average price.

For me, I want my dryer, A/C, water heater, etc. to throttle up and down based on price to lower my bill overall without reducing quality of life.




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