You need 15 to 20 acres of space for each megawatt of peak capacity.
Revenue-grade metering would encourage motorists to charge their cars overnight, rather than in the evening when the grid is at peak capacity.
He added that sewerage upgrades carried out at pumping stations in 2001 were operating at peak capacity during the storm and that a stand-by pump had also been switched on.
We believe that production at the newly acquired Bloom Lake mine should reach its peak annual capacity of 8 million tons in 2012.
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The main objective of smart power meters is to lower the peak load and thus enable utilities to keep down their peak generating capacity.
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Only about 20% of that capacity is generally available during peak demand periods (about 5:00pm), while average generation during off-peak time averages about 40% of capacity.
In Britain this is running close to capacity at peak periods, says Andrew Starkey of IMRG.
That's a big number, because 8% to 12% of peak demand for power capacity comes during the busiest 1% of hours.
"Studies show that Northampton Station is already at capacity during peak hours, while the station building and its associated facilities are out-of-date, and a constraint to economic growth, " WNDC said.
There is a separate ministry for nonconventional energy, which has estimated the country's capacity to generate wind power at 45 gigawatts (peak), ten times current installed capacity.
Traditionally, business investment in capacity at the peak of the cycle has increased competitive pressures, dragging down margins.
He says companies are building capacity to meet peak quarter demand.
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The surge of confidence in St Petersburg has followed a busy summer: hotels were close to capacity in the peak months of June and July.
Lord Spicer kicked off questions in the Lords on 12 December 2011 by asking the government what assumption it had made about capacity levels at peak times at Heathrow Airport when forming transport plans.
EnerNOC, an American energy middleman, for instance, pays other firms for allowing it to shut down their non-essential gear at times of peak demand, thus freeing up capacity.
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In addition, 20% of generating capacity exists purely to meet peak demand, so it operates only 5% of the time and provides a mere 1% of supply.
The Goldman analyst asserts that wafer capacity will hit a new peak in Q4, creating risk of excess chip supply in the second half of this year and into 2012.
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Electrical utilities need to ensure this daytime peak demand load does not exceed their supply capacity.
TfL said it would mean more capacity and more frequent off-peak services.
Satellites ordered in the heady mid-1990s reached orbit on the eve of the Asian crisis, leading to a glut in capacity that is now at its peak.
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Third, to accommodate peak workloads, customers need to provision the transcoding capacity appropriately.
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Every year before the onset of peak winters, the carrier shifts a certain portion of its capacity from the Pacific northwest and the state of Alaska to these routes.
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Peak-time train services to and from Inverness will be doubled in capacity from two carriages to four.
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Third-party providers install and maintain huge reserves of public cloud service capacity: so you can call on extra resources at peak times and release them when they are no longer needed.
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Installed wind-generating capacity was up 20% to 47 gigawatts, again measured by peak output.
The disaster has reduced Tokyo Electric Power Company's capacity to about 34 gigawatts, 20-30% short of peak demand at this time of year, forcing the utility to schedule power cuts.
The Bill will also set up a "capacity market" aimed at ensuring continuity of electricity supply during periods of peak demand.
Installed wind-generating capacity around the world grew 20% last year to 47 gigawatts (measured by peak output).
Speaking at a conference in Dublin this week, organised by the Institute of International and European Affairs and the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, Chris Skrebowski, a consulting editor of Petroleum Review, argued that spare capacity in the oil market could be eroded by 2015.
By the second week, activity had picked up slightly, though workers at the site said it was averaging just 300 bicycles per day, well below capacity and a tiny proportion of the roughly 200, 000 people who were attending Olympic Park events on peak days.
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