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
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
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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