peak load
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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That’s about 4 and 9% of its 52 GW peak load respectively.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
He’s paying attention to reserve margins, a metric that captures extra power-generation capacity beyond the peak load.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 10, 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
Even when the peak load of its traffic is reached—those fearfully hard weeks that immediately precede the Christmas holiday—the workaday routine of Macy's must not be seriously disturbed.
From The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford
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