And so, 25 years ago, there was a peak oil just like, in the 1920s, there was a peak coal and a hundred years before that, there was a peak wood.

Peak load Peak demand, peak load or on peak are terms used in energy demand management describing a period in which electrical power is expected to be provided for a sustained period at a significantly higher than average supply level.

A similar calculation indicates that the peak to peak mains voltage in Europe is about 650 volts.

Well, I think out ahead of us a few decades is peak gas, and beyond that, peak renewables.

Peak time The peak time is the time required for the response to reach the first peak of the overshoot.

Off peak Peak demand is considered to be the opposite to off peak hours when power demand is usually low.

The peak to peak voltage, being twice this, is about 340 volts.

The highest peak is the Peak of Speleologists () but the dominant summit is a typical pyramidal horn of the Arabika Mount ().

Its highest peak, Ras Dashan (4550 m), is the highest peak in Ethiopia.

It is a fresh crater with a distinctive central peak.

Its ad prices reached a peak in season seven at 737,000.

The next week the song reached a new peak of 75.

Some who believe in the imminence of peak oil consider these barriers essentially irrelevant, arguing that their removal would merely delay the peak for a few years.

It is the second highest peak in the Alaska Range, and the third highest peak in the United States.

The song reached a peak of number six on November 4, 2012.

The following week it climbed to a new peak of number four.

The civilization of Ancient Egypt rose to a peak with the Old Kingdom.

Mathiasen Mountain, a member of the Porsild Mountains, is the island's highest peak.

But January 1980 was arguably a freak peak during a period of heightened geo political instability.

The death toll reached a peak of 7,000 in the week of 17 September.

CBR Constant bit rate a Peak Cell Rate (PCR) is specified, which is constant.

The popularity of fox hunting in Britain reached a peak during the 18th century.

International assistance tends to reach its peak in the immediate aftermath of a disaster.

Large geomagnetic storms are most common during the peak of the eleven year sunspot cycle or during the three years after the peak.

As a result, gold can be very volatile upward and downward at the peak of a crisis.

Some petroleum experts argue that world oil production will peak in a decade or so.

Rewa reached its initial peak intensity as a Category 4 tropical cyclone on 2 January.

As the temperature increases, the peak shifts to shorter wavelengths, producing first a red glow, then a white one, and finally a blue white colour as the peak moves out of the visible part of the spectrum and into the ultraviolet.

because the real peak is hidden around the corner.

This is about 1990 peak of the crack epidemic.

Zimbabwe faced 231 million percent peak hyperinflation in 2008.

The average reduction was 40 since the national peak.

But by reducing your energy use, pretty much at the peak times usually when you have you air conditioning on, or other times like that this generates the peak power at the peak usage time, so it's very complementary in that sense.

So about seven years, eight years to reach your peak, and then gradually you fall off your peak, until you go back to the starting point.

And increasing rewards for those at the increasingly sharp peak of the income distribution have not called forth enough enterprising market competition to erode that peak.

The climb race pits a driver and car to drive to the summit of the Pikes Peak mountain in Colorado, and in 1985, Michèle Mouton set a new record of 11 25.39, and being the first woman to set a Pikes Peak record.

A 54 fall in industrial production between its 2007 peak and today is inconceivable isn t it?

In its seventh week on the chart, the song reached a new peak of number 6.

But when he reached the mountain peak, he found the peak covered with countless flags of world conquerors before him, each one claiming 'I was here first' ...

They show their peak activity just before the winter season.

At Napoli, Maradona reached the peak of his professional career.

Under Emperor Diocletian, the persecution of Christians reached its peak.

We are now entering the peak of the lean season .

(b) Refer to Annex 1 for details of peak year.

Peak demand is used to refer to a historically high point in the sales record of a particular product.