energy demand
Required electricity usage
Energy demand is the amount of energy required or consumed by a person, system, region, or economy over a given period.
The term appears in discussions of power grids, climate policy, and resource planning: Rising energy demand in developing nations strains global supply.
Peak energy demand refers to times of highest consumption, when grids face the greatest stress.
- consumptionUsing up of resources
- gridFramework of intersecting lines
- peakUtmost height attained
- peak hoursBusiest usage times
- loadCarried weight or burden
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- energyelectricity, power, oil, fuel, gas
- brain metabolismglycolysis, lactate, pyruvate, mitochondria, metabolic rate
- traded goodscommodities, raw materials, consumer goods, gold, silver
- urbanizationcity, urban growth, metropolis, urban sprawl, suburbanization
- Warming Causescarbon dioxide, CO2, methane, fossil fuels, carbon emissions
energy demandenergy supply
Available fuel or electricity
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energy demandenergy conservation
Unchanging total in closed systems
energy efficiency · energy savings · load shedding · conservation
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