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.

The high point of this era was reached at the peak of the Gandhara style.

The closest alpine peak, the 1,972 metre high Untersberg, is less than from the city centre.

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.

Peak demand is used to refer to a historically high point in the sales record of a particular product.

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.

Five different terminal classes have been defined from a voice centric class up to a high end terminal that supports the peak data rates.

In the case of high sewage flows into the well (for example during peak flow periods and wet weather) additional pumps will be used.

Unemployment remains persistently high, despite the 787 billion stimulus package in 2009, and house prices, though recovering slowly, remain far below their pre 2008 peak.

A disadvantage is that the ripple voltage can still be 50 of peak, and have total harmonic distortion (THD) of 35 , which is rather high.

Emigration has historically been very high, and high levels of such in the country has resulted in a continuous decrease in the country's population by about 25 since its peak of about 51,100 in 1960.

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

History Central power stations became economically practical with the development of alternating current power transmission, using power transformers to transmit power at high voltage and with low loss.

Waves also reached extreme heights, with a buoy near the entrance to New York Harbor measuring a peak wave ten meters high, from crest to trough.

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.

Thus, firms have little pricing power, owing to excess capacity, while workers bargaining power is low, owing to high unemployment.

And eventually, they'll have evolved to such a high peak of perfection that they will make us all their pets if, of course, they haven't already done so.

This process cannot safely be rushed, and this is why climbers need to spend days (or even weeks at times) acclimatizing before attempting to climb a high peak.

Hungary The Danube river was at its peak 865 cm (28 ft 4 in) high in Budapest, Hungary, higher than the previous record of 848 cm in 2002.

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

Owner of power , and high rank with ( Allah ) the Lord of the Throne ,

Barry Friedman There are all kinds of high tech chairs here today, but this is really, I think, when it reached its peak as far as ergonomics, comfort, design, flexibility ...

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

Minority politicians have long wielded authority, if not power, in its various high offices.

Yes, the stock market is now at an all time high but only in current dollars. In real terms, the S P 500 is still 20 below its January 2000 peak.

Today, the real price of oil is nearly twice as high as it was at the peak of that crisis, but we have seen nothing like the images from 1973 5.

In western Europe, fishing vessel design is focused on compact boats with high catching power.

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.

It is applied to a markedly high desire for and pursuit of wealth, status, and power.