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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Today, the top few players still earn a very good living, but less than at the peak.

At the peak of the crisis, governments had an opportunity to create a new global financial infrastructure.

The highest peak, at 1,156 metres, is Mount Liamuiga on St. Kitts.

At its peak, the rule of law pillar included over 200 personnel.

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

The highest point of the country is peak Maglić at 2,386 m, at the Montenegrin border.

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.

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

During this period, credit expanded rapidly as a share of GDP, reaching more than 300 at the peak.

It should peak at 11 some time in 2010 and remain well above 10 for a long time.

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

Now this was into August now, and normally sharks peak at June, July.

In 2007, nearly 9,000 vehicles crossed the bridge every hour at peak flow.

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

Despite this, unemployment will peak at around 10 , rather than at 24 , as it did in the US during the Great Depression, while nonfarm unemployment will peak at 10.5 , rather than at 30 . Nor will we have a lost decade of economic stagnation, as Japan did in the 1990 s.

Anfield could accommodate more than 60,000 supporters at its peak, and had a capacity of 55,000 until the 1990s.

It works at approximately 1.5 MIPS and has a theoretical peak of 1.79 million 16 bit adds per second.

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

Slumdog Millionaire is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers.

The highest peak in Northern Ireland is Slieve Donard in the Mourne Mountains at .

The United States has been running a chronic current account deficit, which exceeded 6 percent of GDP at its peak.

Some observers worry that American society will become sclerotic, like Britain at the peak of its power a century ago.

Indeed, at the peak of the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, gold prices fell sharply a few times.

At the peak of its population, the colony can reach a size of 700 workers, which occurs in late summer.

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.

The high point of this era was reached at the peak of the Gandhara style.

The peak of this convexity is at the level of the third lumbar vertebra (L3).

At the peak of his career in 1985, Elton John sang about Nikita , a love interest confined behind the Iron Curtain.

The point at which the economy stops growing is called the peak, and the point at which it stops contracting, the trough. The period from the point at which the economy starts to grow again until the point at which it reaches the previous peak is called the recovery.

At its peak in 1992, mad cow disease was claiming nearly 1,000 head of cattle weekly.

In Paris she had a sold out run of Les Pirates de la Savanne and was at the peak of her success.

The results are undeniable at peak times, mini bus taxis hold 65 of the entire commuter market.

It fluctuated in the top 20 before reaching its peak at number 11 on July 24, 2010.

When an occasional peak at one duty station coincides with a low period at another, staff loans take place to make more efficient use of the resources available.

Bobby Unser used an Audi in that same year to claim a new record for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb at 11 09.22.

In 1384, the Hundred Years' War was at its peak, with English and French forces in a struggle for the crown of France.

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