With sweeping deregulation, electricity suppliers would offer consumers price breaks for using electricity during off-peak hours.
The new rules also ban out-of-town cars in much of the city during peak hours.
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It makes sense that people will voluntarily wait to run their clothes dryer until cheaper off-peak hours.
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The work will be carried out during the day between 09:30 and 16:00 GMT to avoid peak hours.
Others include persuading people either to drive outside peak hours or to use routes that carry less traffic.
You recycle, drive a hybrid, and run your major appliances during off-peak hours.
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But the tube is already badly overcrowded at peak hours and can only get worse in the near term.
Some airlines have bunched up schedules at big airports to increase connecting opportunities, adding to congestion at peak hours.
The carrier said it will increase the number of flights during peak hours on key routes between Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
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The team's ideas incorporate a wide range of technology -- though much of it works around using utilities during off-peak hours.
At the same time, the utilities charge residential consumers a flat rate, giving them no incentive to run appliances during off-peak hours.
The hard shoulder would be in use 24 hours a day, unlike other schemes in England which restrict use to peak hours.
Many cities are plagued by bus bunching at peak hours: one bus stops frequently to pick up and drop off passengers, slowing its progress.
This modification would result in both markets using the same definition of on- and off-peak hours and be able to share key operational information.
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The problems include no signal, people only being able to make calls during off-peak hours and voicemail failing to save and record messages properly.
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"These are peak hours, U.S. daytime hours while people are still in front of their computers looking at publications and media outlets, " says Aaron Krane.
Discounted off-peak hours are typically between 12 a.m. and 5 a.m.
Franchisees say the company is doing several things to improve service, from boosting staffing at peak hours to rolling out a new system for taking orders.
Truckers declared a strike against new driving restrictions in the city of Sao Paulo that prevent them from using many central streets and arteries during peak hours.
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However, the Department of Regional Development (DRD) has said that most of the work will be carried out during off-peak hours in order to minimise traffic disruption.
Power markets would begin with forecasting their Day-Ahead on-peak hours.
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Now 56, Critelli spends most of his time lobbying for postal reforms to benefit Pitney Bowes, such as variable pricing for commercial mail to stimulate demand in off-peak 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.
Flights to major cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco and others could experience delays of up to 90 minutes during peak hours because we have fewer controllers on staff.
Customers with smart thermostats reduced their usage by 27%, and customers with gateway systems, which adjust the electricity use of multiple appliances, reduced their usage by 43% during the peak hours.
Consumers could save several times that much if the system cuts peak energy demand, however, since prices at peak hours are set by the least efficient, most expensive generators on the grid.
Notably, during peak hours the average continuous download speeds of fiber connections were 14 percent faster than advertised, while cable and DSL were slower than claimed by 8 and 18 percent, respectively.
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