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

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.

In addition, the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management requires temporary staffing in order to meet increased demand during peak periods, and to meet other needs such as replacement of staff on mission detail, maternity leave or sick leave.

In terms of energy use, peak demand describes a period of simultaneous, strong consumer demand or a period of highest demand in a billing period.

Unless global demand collapses, at some point in the future oil production will peak and eventually be exhausted.

In 2006, the energy market was around 90 terawatt hours and the peak demand around 15 gigawatts in winter.

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

Natural gas fueled power stations can be fired up rapidly and are therefore often utilized at peak demand times.

As global oil demand increases, there is not enough capacity to meet it a cycle that will continue until demand collapses.

Demand for and supply of opiates used to meet medical and scientific needs

Regional programmes are generally understaffed to meet a growing demand for their services.

Usually, the goal of demand side management is to encourage the consumer to use less energy during peak hours, or to move the time of energy use to off peak times such as nighttime and weekends.

Energy hungry America has long depended on the global market to meet domestic demand.

Scholarships and state guaranteed loans are available, but are insufficient to meet growing demand.

To escape the crisis, Germany used rapid export growth especially to meet voracious Chinese demand.

The only way to meet growing demand was to use OPEC s spare capacity and commercial inventories.

We know how to build power systems, design modern cooking stoves, and meet energy demand efficiently.

A group of fan translators will often translate the game themselves to meet demand for titles.

It summarizes the amount of parking observed with various land uses at different times of the day week month year including the peak parking demand.

South Africa has about 60 billion tonnes of coal reserves, which is sufficient to meet this demand.

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

To meet expected demand over the next 20 years, global food supplies must increase by an estimated 50 .

At the same time, expanded access to credit has supported a building boom to meet vast untapped demand.

German multinationals like Siemens and Daimler are ratcheting up investment to meet both emerging market and domestic demand.

Barring unexpected shocks, I believe that China s inflation may peak soon. From a macroeconomic perspective, China s current inflation is attributable both to demand pull and cost push factors.

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

It is also concerned that recovery and counselling services are insufficient to meet the increased demand for such services.

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

The first path is to boost demand for goods and services, and then sit back and watch employment rise as businesses hire people to make the goods and services to meet that demand.

UNICEF will support appropriate and affordable ladders' of technology options for home toilets, and approaches that create demand for home toilets and improve the supply of goods and services to meet such demand.

The offer was initially scheduled to run for only two weeks, but was extended until December 31, 2007 to meet demand.

The participation of Vietnamese women is yet to be commensurate with their capability and meet the demand of the reform process.

Kempton and Budischak designed a computer model for wind, solar, and storage to meet demand for one fifth of the US grid.

Not only will battery powered vehicles draw power from the electricity grid during recharging, but, when parked, they can also feed additional power back into the grid during periods of peak demand.

When businesses and households eventually increase their demand for loans, commercial banks that have adequate capital can meet that demand with new lending without running into the limits that might otherwise result from inadequate reserves.

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

By 2050, global food production will have to increase by 60 to meet demand from a growing world population with changing consumption habits.

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

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.

To meet the growing demand for information, the Department must adopt innovative media and newer, faster technologies and optimize the tools it already had.

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

Human trafficking should be considered in the context of migratory flows, intensified by demand for labour in the more developed countries, combined with increasing restrictions on the entry of many of those who migrated to meet that demand.

The First Nations Training Corps, which is now part of the Workplace Diversity Employment Office, has been substantially expanded to meet the demand for training.

It was indicated that, in general, those services were not sufficiently available to meet the demand and that more should be done in that area.

The idea behind the policy is that demand for labor is a constant, and that this fixed number of aggregate working hours required by employers to meet final demand can be spread more evenly among workers to reduce unemployment.