H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: Yes, it will. There is no market for electricity at night. >> > > There is no market currently, but if more and more electricity is being > demanded at night wouldn't that create a market? >
Yes, as I said, if nighttime consumption increases, I expect they will tweak the rates to get the most profit from it. I said, "They might tweak the discount, and reduce it somewhat . . ." But they have a large captive market for daytime consumption, with things like office buildings, grocery stores, shopping malls, shopping mall air conditioning, and so on. Those customers cannot move their consumption to night. There is probably much more captive consumption than consumption which could be moved to the night, so I expect night rates will always be lower. It resembles airplane seats available between midnight and 8 a.m. They are discounted because few people want to fly "red eye" at those hours, except for long, overnight, international flights. I do not think Georgia Power will continue offering the 1-cent electric vehicle rate for long. My guess is that it will go up to something like 5 cents. That is the "Nights and Weekends" discounted rate, which you can sign up for. In return for that, the peak rate is 20 cents, which is a lot more than the usual rate. See: https://www.georgiapower.com/residential/billing-and-rate-plans/pricing-and-rate-plans/nights-weekends.html https://www.georgiapower.com/content/dam/georgia-power/pdfs/electric-service-tariff-pdfs/TOU-REO-13.pdf
