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.

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.

Natural gas fueled power stations can be fired up rapidly and are therefore often utilized at peak demand times.

Some observers worry that American society will become sclerotic, like Britain at the peak of its power a century ago.

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

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

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.

As the victorious heir to the collapsed Cold War order, the United States stood alone, undisputed, at the peak of its global power.

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

Certain Chinese scholars are now writing about the decline of the US, with one identifying the year 2000 as the peak of American power.

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.

After 1979, fears about limits to growth and nuclear power ebbed. Oil prices gradually fell, and the stock market began its long climb towards its peak in 2000.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Many Chinese believe that this represents a shift in the global balance of power, and that China should be less deferential to other countries, including the US. Certain Chinese scholars are now writing about the decline of the US, with one identifying the year 2000 as the peak of American power.

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

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

The following week it climbed to a new peak of number four.

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