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

But European companies remain hesitant, despite low interest rates, keeping private investment well below its previous peak.

The unemployment rate increased from a low of 1.7 in June 2000 to a peak of 4.4 in December 2009.

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

In 1978 2008 the age of economic reform and opening China s average ICOR was a relatively low 2.6, reaching its peak between the mid 1980 s and the early 1990 s.

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

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.

In 2001, the TFR was at a record low of 1.63, but it then increased every year till reaching a peak of 1.96 in 2008, before decreasing again.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

First, they were trapped in a vicious circle of low income, low savings and low investment, leading to low productivity and low growth.

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

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.

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

Energy related CO2 emissions would peak in 2025 and decline slightly by 2030.

While a rising birth rate is contributing to current population growth, it remains considerably below the 'baby boom' peak of 2.95 children per woman in 1964, below the replacement rate of 2.1, but higher than the 2001 record low of 1.63.

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.

Seasonal variations are considerable, November and March being the peak times for fish harvesting.

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.

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.

The following week it climbed to its peak of number seven.

The climatological peak of activity is around September 11 each season.

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

The poor are caught in a complex poverty trap in which low income leads to low consumption, which in turn results in low capacity and low productivity.

3 Where (p) stands for peak, (e) stands for electric and (th) stands for thermal.