Huh? Why didn't you just tell them to go pound sand. The rate plan you're on has a rate schedule and the rates are fixed by time of day. PG&E's rates to get the electricity are variable according to whatever is happening on the spot market but that's NOT your problem. I've deliberately used the AC and dryer on weekends between 5 and 8 pm (I'm on the TOU plan that has off-peak rates all weekend long) because my rates are fixed while theirs are variable and since I know they're ripping me off, I want to screw them over whenever I can. I can't decide if I hate PG&E or Comcast more but they're both sleazy bottom of the barrel companies.
Lol don't get me started on why PG&E sucks. PG&E may employ some good people, but the organization as a whole blows. I dunno why anyone out there would defend those scumbags.
Back when I got the PG&E letters, I was on a tiered E-1 rate plan. We cooked meals, ran the AC, and did whatever we felt was "normal" for the first few months after we moved into the house and had a wah wah wah newborn.
To the point about "screwing" PG&E... they were going to get theirs no matter what. They put our house into the "!" tier which meant energy was like approaching $1.00 per kWh. I personally do not understand why, but PG&E started sending us paper mailers informing us about how terrible we were as an energy user compared to other homes in East Bay. I wish I saved some of those letters; back then I didn't understand what was happening but just threw them in the trach. The mailers were so idiotic. They'd contain stuff like:
1) Don't run your ACs
2) Don't cook hot meals
3) Go jump in a community pool to cool off
4) Air Dry your clothes
5) Turn your TV brightness down
6) Don't watch TV with the lights on
7) so on and so forth STUPID AZZ IDEAS.
I wasn't about to do any of those things. Felons and murderers aren't going to convince me to go jump in a community pool.
But then one day they started phone spamming me to brow beat me into using less electricity. Then they "offered" (threatened?) to put on some devices on my ACs so PG&E could remotely shut off the condensers. I was like - WTF, this is worse than being in collections.
One PG&E employee went so far as to say that the average temperate over a 24 hour cycle ranges from 60 F to 100F where I live in the Summer. So she said that if I just opened my windows and let the house get super cold at night, then the house would warm up in the day. The average temperate would be 80F and I'd use zero electricity to heat or cool. I am not making this stuff up. Imagine your power company telling you this sh!t.
So, at my first opportunity I overhauled my HVAC units and planned for solar. Then, after I lower my household demand, I get people telling me I'm robbing from poor people. The IOUs and their advocates need to go eff off. The whole system is busted. They make it some class warfare BS when the truth is PG&E sucks.