Arizona utility pushes smarter energy use to maximize daytime solar power
PV-Magazine | September 17, 2018
Arizona Public Service has announced three new residential energy programs hoping to financially motivate customers to use cheaper daytime electricity via HVAC, energy storage and hot water heaters. The daytime electricity pricing revolution is spreading. Sometime in the early 2010s in Germany, we saw the first duck curve, where peak daytime electricity pricing formerly the place where electricity was most expensive and generators made all their profits became the lowest priced periods. Then the duck curve spread to California, and recently New England.