In New England customers were pulling down 27 gigawatts of juice, 23% more than their average demand.
March-April data for other base metals showed an average demand decline of 6.7% year on year, although this was less than the 10% fall Barclays had expected.
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But a YouTube clip of a documentary made about the original production in 1970 might explain why this show is little above average in demand.
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Until August last year, the EIA had been using a five-year average for export demand.
Roughly 53 million homes have access to video-on-demand with the average consumer spending more than 8.5 hours using on-demand services and watching more than 17 titles a month, according to Rentrak, a research group.
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Consequently, lower average prices should boost demand as the cost advantage of HDDs will be diminished.
With these assumptions, annual oil demand growth should average 1.2 millions barrels per day through 2016.
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When you average out your customers' demand, you lose sight of those customers' key decision thresholds.
Wilson projected that global demand growth will average 7.6% annually from 2010 to 2105 compared to 5.5% over the last decade.
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Chinese demand has pushed the average price of a Vancouver home up 12% in 2010 and is expected to rise another 3% this year, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
If a regulator accuses a hospital of being rife with infections, or staffed by incompetents whose patient survival rates are way below the national average, then locals will swiftly demand wholesale changes.
Investor demand has pushed the average yield for corporate bonds in the iBoxx Dollar Emerging Markets index for Europe, the Middle East and Africa down by a third since the start of 2012 to 4.23%.
On average, each Volt will add electric demand equal to a couple of home refrigerators.
It then deteriorated due to bad weather, increased activity and high levels of demand, which were above average during January.
Demand has helped push the average yield on a Triple-A 10-year muni to a current 1.9% from 3.5% in January 2011, according to Thomson Reuters Municipal Market Data.
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Pent up demand is high because the average age of the vehicle population in the U.S. is now 10 years, older than it has been since World War II.
There is the impression that Capital One catered to card holders with lower than average credit, and used their increased demand for credit to push through rates and terms unfriendly to consumers.
Energy expert and occasional FORBES columnist Peter Huber has noted, "Pooling supply and demand nationwide will cut the average cost of generating electricity by 30% to 50%, " thereby making feasible green dreams of more electric vehicles.
Automotive freight revenue primarily increased due to higher vehicle production, which has seen increases to meet pent up demand created by the high average vehicle age in the U.S. However, as individuals continue replace old vehicles, we might see growth in this segment moderate going forward since vehicles are not a commodity purchased by an individual customer on a recurring basis.
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Tight supply and strong demand have boosted companywide sales an average of 19% a year for the past three years.
Electricity demand per meter was significantly above average in the north of Scotland, but below average across most of the central belt and Ayrshire.
Due to the non-cyclical demand for their product and above average costs to relocate, healthcare tenants also prefer long-term leases to make their expenses predictable.
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The upward revision made to Chinese oil demand in 2010, on an average across the main forecasts, totaled some 600, 000 barrels per day since the start of last year.
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Given that Comcast has close to 22 million pay-TV subscribers, 2.4 billion hours imply that each Comcast customer is on an average watching over 9 hours of on-demand video every month.
Apart from the high input cost environment, margins have been adversely affected by disproportionate growth in developing markets and mid-tier products, which have lower than segment average selling prices (ASPs) and lower demand for premium-priced products leading to an adverse product mix and a downward pressure on margins.
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If 10% of drivers reduce their consumption by 10% each, that will work out to 1% decrease in demand (presuming that they consumed an average amount to begin with).
As productivity rises, on average, by 3% a year, compared with demand growth of 2%, there is an inbuilt tendency to develop excess capacity.
However, it says while average emissions per oil barrel are declining, since the demand for oil production has increased, overall emissions have increased as well.
Global oil demand growth in a best case scenario will average around 1.27 million barrels a day, while under the worst case scenario of a global recession decline by around 750, 000 barrels daily.
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