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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Zimbabwe faced 231 million percent peak hyperinflation in 2008.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

That number has declined from the 1.6 million peak registered in 1993.

The highest peak in Northern Ireland is Slieve Donard in the Mourne Mountains at .

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

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

The unemployment rate will peak above 10 in most other advanced economies, too.

In 2007, nearly 9,000 vehicles crossed the bridge every hour at peak flow.

The peak number of military observers increased from 1,929 in 2002 03 to 2,022 in 2003 04 and the peak number of civilian staff in missions decreased slightly from 11,165 in 2002 03 to 10,545 in 2003 04.

In fact, most Chinese economists predicted last year that inflation would peak in early 2011.

The death toll reached a peak of 7,000 in the week of 17 September.

The popularity of fox hunting in Britain reached a peak during the 18th century.

Mullayanagiri peak, in Karnataka, is the highest point (1,930 m) of the Krishna basin.

International assistance tends to reach its peak in the immediate aftermath of a disaster.

because the real peak is hidden around the corner.

This is about 1990 peak of the crack epidemic.

The average reduction was 40 since the national peak.

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 petroleum experts argue that world oil production will peak in a decade or so.