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.

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.

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

The peak number of troops deployed during the reporting period increased to 48,988 compared with 34,901 during the period 2002 03, whereas the peak number of civilian police deployed during the reporting period decreased slightly to 5,251 compared to 6,181 during the period 2002 03.

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.

But January 1980 was arguably a freak peak during a period of heightened geo political instability.

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

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.

There has been an increasing demand for funds during the current mandate period.

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.

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

For Europe s bigger countries, the picture of annualized demand in the same period is mixed.

Indeed, some highly indebted firms capital chains may well rupture in the next two years, when they reach their peak period for debt repayment.

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.

But, during a period of weak domestic demand, structural reforms might actually exacerbate short term problems.

Having reached a peak in 1997 (22,500 women and children was the estimated number), coerced prostitution showed a limited fall in the period 1998 2000.

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

One victim died four days after the release, 10 over an eight day period at the peak of the deaths, and the last six weeks later.

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.

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.

The most difficult period for Chinese decision makers was between February and September 2008, when, despite abundant signs of a softening in domestic demand, overall demand remained strong, as did inflation.

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.

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.

During this period, world oil demand increased, mostly in developing countries, while production remained relatively flat from 2005 to 2008.

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.

After such a long period of stagnation, people demand to see and feel changes for the better in their own lives.

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.

Again, higher prices will ration global oil demand, but only after a period of economic pain in some regions around the world.

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.

1969 1975 Period The economy of South Vietnam faced difficulties caused by sudden decrease of demand as the US and its allies steadily reduced their armed forces from South Vietnam over the 1970 72 period.

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

Excluding the 1989 1990 slowdown that followed the Tiananmen crisis, average annual growth over this period was 9.45 , with a peak of 14.2 in 1994 and 2007, and a nadir of 7.6 in 1999.

The reason is simple the pre crisis period of consuming capital gains that turned out to be at least partly ephemeral inevitably led to a post crisis period of inhibited spending, diminished demand, and higher unemployment.

From the first quarter of 2008 through the second period of 2009, consumer demand fell for six consecutive quarters at a 2.2 annual rate.

The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush a period in which strong sled dogs were in high demand.

Over most of the postwar period, this post recession release of pent up consumer demand has been a powerful source of support for economic recovery.

One part of the world runs large deficits for a prolonged period, creating demand another part of the world runs surpluses, financing its counterparts deficits.

because the real peak is hidden around the corner.