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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

They sent a search party, and I overheard people saying they wish I had killed myself, jumped off Bible Peak.

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.

Of course, the effects spread through the economy as demand for cars falls, demand for steel also falls, and steel workers are laid off.

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

After maintaining peak intensity for 30 hours and moving a distance of about 75 miles (120 km), Carol weakened slightly off the coast of Georgia.

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.

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

It is the result of politics and policies in several major economies politics and policies that choked off demand. In the absence of demand, investment and jobs will fail to materialize.

By providing a secondary demand valve the need to alternately breathe off the same mouthpiece when sharing air is eliminated.

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.

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.

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.

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

Paradoxically, then, the very conditions that made it impossible for the nuclear industry to deliver full power in Europe in 2003 and 2006 created peak demand for electricity, owing to the increased use of air conditioning.

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

For it to be useful, believers in scarce oil must be able to predict such things as the timing of the oil peak, the state of demand when oil production reaches it, and the pattern of decline.

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

There will come a time, of course, when the exponential growth of discovery and knowledge, which actually began in the 1600s, has to peak and level off, but that's not going to matter to you.

Low wage competition has led to substantial outsourcing and off shoring activities that have kept German firms competitive by reducing their demand for domestic labor.

And if all countries pursue austerity simultaneously, lower demand for each country s goods will lead to lower domestic and foreign consumption, leaving all worse off.

Although demand for the C64 dropped off in the United States by 1990, it continued to be popular in the UK and other European countries.

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.

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.

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.

And, in that alternative universe, having worked off the entire burden of overbuilding, we would by now have returned to trend levels of production, employment, and demand.

Moreover, Russia s ability to meet future gas demand from commercially viable reserves suggests that Nord Stream could be used to cut off gas sales to unfavored clients.

He has waived America s long standing demand that Iran stop uranium enrichment as a precondition for negotiations, and he has sworn off any idea of regime change.

Men cannot be employed when the object of desire i.e., money is something which cannot be produced and the demand for which cannot readily be choked off.

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' ...

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.