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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

While household sector debt was pruned to 115 of disposable personal income in early 2011 from the peak of 130 hit in 2007, it remains well in excess of the 75 average of the 1970 2000 period.

Crime in England and Wales increased in the period between 1981 and 1995, though since that peak there has been an overall fall of 48 in recorded crime from 1995 to 2007 08, according to crime statistics.

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.

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.