this measure has effectively encouraged people to consume electricity in offpeak hours similar pricing incentives also agreed and implemented at the provincial level are applied to industry to promote peak shaving and load shifting along with measures to shut down energyintensive factories to help rationalise electricity use in extreme weather conditions as the measure divides the day into two or three time intervals for which prices are fixed it does not allow realtime response to demandsupply fluctuations across smaller time intervals as might result from variable renewables