From: ganthony@gmail.org   
      
   On 4/6/2024 9:26 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:   
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   >       My expiriment with time of day pricing for electricity is ending   
   > soon. It looks like it was an expiriment for the electric company too.   
   > The time of day pricing program ends at the end of 2024.   
   >   
   >      Right from the start the electric company told me I would save money   
   > during the Winter, but I would lose some of those savings during the   
   > Summer. That has proven to be correct. Over the past year I saved $55 on   
   > time of day pricing. That's pretty good for the less than 5 minutes of   
   > work it took to change my pricing model. If I could get more of that   
   > sort of work I would make over $660 an hour in savings. As I said   
   > before, the easiest way to make money is by not spending it.   
   >   
   >       They have been telling me I could change my pricing model anytime I   
   > wanted to. That isn't completely true. I can go back to standard pricing   
   > anytime, but if I do that I can't return to time of day pricing for a   
   > year. They closed open enrollment at the beginning of the year. After   
   > 2024 PGE will not be offering time of day pricing to residential   
   > customers. Last year I started losing money on time of day pricing in   
   > May. This year I will return to standard pricing at the end of March and   
   > pocket my savings.   
   >   
   > TB   
      
   That's a far cry from the $8.7mil you saved a couple of years ago.   
      
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