peak load
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He’s paying attention to reserve margins, a metric that captures extra power-generation capacity beyond the peak load.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 10, 2026
The package will also increase energy efficiency requirements and raise the cap on rooftop solar from 1% to 10% of each utility’s five-year average peak load.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2023
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
The peak load of peril was confronted and passed, but still his speech ranged over the bait words most potent as verbal sedatives.
From Lady Luck by Wiley, Hugh
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