peak load
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The Institute for Energy Research projects 166 gigawatts of new peak load by end of decade.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026
If more EV owners are able to charge their cars during the day, and smart charging technologies are deployed as expected, that increase in peak load will shrink.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2022
In fact, AC could account for 20 to 44 percent of the peak load in India’s power grid by 2050.
From Scientific American • May 10, 2022
The Cleveland Clinic, using a model with more dire predictions than their counterparts in Columbus and Cincinnati, determined it would need to expand to 8,000 beds to handle its peak load of covid-19 patients.
From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2020
It was just before Christmas and the store was approaching the annual peak load of its year's traffic.
From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward
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