AC can be amazing!

Yes, and air-conditioning unit with inverter technology can help allot, we also spent extra and appreciate the energy savings. You still can't run it all day and expect to stay out of DAC, but it can help. We were able to keep our rates in the low range using a similar strategy as Tallyho. Unfortunately our guests aren't as frugal and so many of them run the AC all night long so we no longer enjoy the lower rates, but it is possible when one is smart.