On top of this, new charging models are coming out, based on lifestyle and rewards for off-peak consumption.
Which is why you know exactly what explains the typical rise in heating bills, just after peak consumption of mince pies.
Most traditional servers do nothing for about 90% of their lives and continue to burn about half their peak energy consumption even while idle.
The futures price for delivery in January, at the peak of consumption, is only 94.9 cents, leaving no spread over today's price to pay storage costs.
On the verge of a four day rally, oil futures have gained on the prospects of an OPEC-IEA stand-off, falling stockpiles in the U.S. ahead of peak gasoline consumption given the Fourth of July holiday, and the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, Tropical Storm Arlene, hitting the coast of Mexico.
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According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, the pre-financial crisis peak in personal consumption (adjusted for inflation) was in the fourth calendar quarter of 2007.
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Indeed, there was such an uproar in California when the authorities proposed letting power companies adjust the thermostats in people's homes remotely so as to lower overall electricity consumption at peak times the idea was hastily abandoned.
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Asbestos use in the developing world has risen fivefold since 1960, and now exceeds American consumption at its peak.
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Since its peak in the 1960s, coffee consumption there had been in decline.
It installed more than 20, 000 smart meters, connected them via a fibre-optic network, launched a website to track power use and has started to offer pricing plans that encourage shifting consumption to off-peak hours.
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Smart meters will better inform consumers of their energy consumption and increase off-peak tariff usage.
To keep from packing on pounds, experts say, limit food consumption to your hours of peak activity.
The number of Chinese billionaires and millionaires has reached a new peak in the last two years, and their mode of consumption is evolving.
Such prices reflect scarcity on the supply side during periods of peak demand, and are meant to bring about a reduction in consumption while stimulating more investment in generation.
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In the most recently reported calendar quarter, personal consumption is only up about 3.3 percent from the pre-crisis peak.
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It is predicted that in 2012, Chinese domestic consumption of REs will match domestic production, and this year will see a peak in availability and a demand-supply gap emerging on the world markets.
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