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.

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.

It reached its peak of number two on October 25, 2012.

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

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

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

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.

But the track record of peak oil theorists on such matters has not been impressive their predictions have steadily moved forward the date that global oil production will peak.

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

After seven weeks on the chart, the song the reached its peak of four.

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.

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

It reached its top twenty peak at number 16 on October 15, 2011 after seven weeks on the chart.

Each downward revision implies postponement of the date on which the debt GDP ratio will peak.

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

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

The peak ratio and the subsequent downward trajectory depend crucially on the assumed pace of economic growth.

This means that the peak brightness of a comet depends significantly on its distance from the Sun.

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

The second highest peak is a volcano, Nevado del Ruiz, which erupted violently on November 13, 1985.

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

The ward was founded on March 15, 1947 and reached a peak resident population of 370,000 in 1965.

The song reached its peak of number three on December 21, where it remained for four consecutive weeks.

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.

After five weeks, the single reached its peak of number 4 and stayed on the position for one week.

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.

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.

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.

It is a fresh crater with a distinctive central peak.

We are now entering the peak of the lean season .

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

Barring unexpected shocks, I believe that China s inflation may peak soon.

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

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