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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PEAK LOAD

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Peak load is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PEAK LOAD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

peak load

Load profile

In electrical engineering, a load profile is a graph of the variation in the electrical load versus time. A load profile will vary according to customer type, temperature and holiday seasons. Power producers use this information to plan how much electricity they will need to make available at any given time. Teletraffic engineering uses a similar load curve.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PEAK LOAD

peak
peak demand
Peak District
peak experience
peak hours
peak listening time
peak period
peak production
peak programme meter
peak rate
peak season
peak time
peak traffic
peak viewing time
peak year
peak-hour
peak-time
Peake
peaked
peakedness

WORDS THAT END LIKE PEAK LOAD

back-end load
base load
dead load
download
dummy load
front-end load
glycaemic load
glycemic load
live load
load
lorry load
overload
payload
reload
shoot one´s load
tensile load
traction load
upload
wash load
workload

Synonyms and antonyms of peak load in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «peak load» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PEAK LOAD

Find out the translation of peak load to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of peak load from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «peak load» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

高峰负荷
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

carga pico
570 millions of speakers

English

peak load
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पीक लोड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحمل الأقصى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пиковая нагрузка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

carga de pico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শীর্ষ লোড
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

charge maximum
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Beban puncak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Spitzenbelastung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ピーク負荷
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

최대 부하
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

LIYANE
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phụ tải đỉnh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உச்ச சுமை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पीक लोड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tepe yükü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

carico di picco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szczytowe obciążenia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пікове навантаження
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vârf
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φορτίο αιχμής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spitslas
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

toppbelastning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

topplast
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PEAK LOAD»

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Generation, Distribution and Utilization of Electrical Energy
The load duration curve thus helps us in determining the various plant factors, the capacity of base and peak load plants. The load factor of peak load plant is much less than that of the base load plant and, therefore, the cost of generating ...
C. L. Wadhwa, 1989
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Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
According to ASHRAE Handbook 1993 Fundamentals, the percentages of convective and radiative components of the sensible heat gains are as follows: Load Profile, Peak Load, and Block Load A load profile shows the variation of space, ...
Frank Kreith, Shan K. Wang, Paul Norton, 1999
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Practical Management Science
EXAMPLE 7.4 PEAK-LOAD PRICING AT FLORIDA POWER AND LIGHT F lorida Power and Light (FPL) faces demands during both peak-load and off-peak times. FPL must determine the price per kilowatt hour (kwh) to charge during both ...
Wayne Winston, S. Albright, 2011
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Industrial Organization: Theory and Applications
13.3 Peak-Load Pricing The problem of peak-load pricing is generally studied in the context of optimal governmental regulations for public companies such as public utilities, including phone, transportation and electricity companies (see ...
Oz Shy, 1995
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Distributed Power Generation: Planning and Evaluation
Peak load per consumer is generally a strictly decreasing value as a function of the number of consumers in the group. Often, the value of C for large numbers of customers is only about .330. Thus, the coincidence factor, C, can be thought of ...
H. Lee Willis, 2000
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Performance Analysis for Java Web Sites
Setting goals lets you know when the web site is ready for production. In Chapter 1 , we discussed some of the basic performance concepts, such as peak load, throughput, response time, and scalability. In this chapter, we discuss how to ...
Stacy Joines, Ruth Willenborg, Ken Hygh, 2002
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The Theory and Practice of Revenue Management
8.2.4. Peak-Load. Pricing. Under. Perfect. Competition. RM is strongly associated with service industries. Because services are not storable, the capacity that a firm provides in one period cannot be used to supply demand in future periods, and ...
Kalyan T. Talluri, Garrett J. van Ryzin, 2005
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Electrical Load Forecasting: Modeling and Model Construction
Modeling and Model Construction S.A. Soliman, Ahmad Mohammad Al-Kandari. In this chapter we introduce different techniques used to estimate the annual peak load, where different models are used. In the first part, the LAV and least error ...
S.A. Soliman, Ahmad Mohammad Al-Kandari, 2010
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The Regulation of Monopoly
9.4 Peak-load pricing and quality A special form of the capital bias in pricing can be seen in the failure of rate-of-return regulated firms, until pressured recently by state and federal agencies in the United States to offer lower prices during ...
Roger Sherman, 1989
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Handbook of Public Economics
Therefore a more general model of the peak load problem is needed. A priori we could think of applying the usual Boiteux model of public pricing. Classify, e.g., electricity demand into so many periods (= goods) so as to make sure that ...
Martin Feldstein, A.J. Auerbach, 1985

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PEAK LOAD»

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More polar blasts to come: weather expert
Lines company Vector said during a "cold snap" in July its peak load was up 74 MW on the same week the year before. The company said that ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
2
Cold snap drives demand
During the cold snap in the first week in July, Vector's peak load was up 74 MW on the same week the year before. 74 MW is equivalent to the ... «Scoop.co.nz, Jul 15»
3
PPS intent on shedding lofty rates
The utility's average load is about 80 megawatts, and its 2014 peak load was 132 megawatts. "We've picked all the low-hanging fruit that we ... «Paducah Sun, Jul 15»
4
Electricity customers in line for credit on their bills
The power auction aims to lock in adequate electricity supplies from power supply companies to cover times of peak load for the next year. «Herald & Review, Jul 15»
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VMware Virtual SAN Review: Sysbench OLTP Performance
Across the 4 Sysbench VMs, we saw times under peak load ranging from 86.91ms up to 99.23ms. Max latency during this period measured ... «StorageReview.com, Jul 15»
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ITC Holdings Corp. Receives Consensus Recommendation of "Hold …
... Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma, with a combined peak load exceeding 26,000 megawatts along 15,000 circuit miles of transmission line. «Dakota Financial News, Jul 15»
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Brownout hours expected to decline
Zamcelco, which has a peak load demand of 85-MW, has a deficit of 37 megawatts that is translated to nine hours. (Bong Garcia) ... «Sun.Star, Jul 15»
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National electricity peak load record registered
A new all-time national electricity peak load of 438 megawatts was registered by Enemalta yesterday afternoon, the company said. It said in a ... «Times of Malta, Jul 15»
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California PUC approves demand response auction details
California's IOUs have demand response resources totaling about 3.9% of their total peak load, but face an interim 5% demand response target ... «Platts, Jul 15»
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Plan for pumped storage
... of the Edamalayar, Sholayar, Panniyar, Sabarigiri, and Kakkad hydroelectric projects to enhance the availability of peak load energy. «The Hindu, Jul 15»

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