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  2. Peak demand - Wikipedia

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    Typical daily consumption of electrical power in Germany, outdated (2005) Peak demand may exceed the maximum supply levels that the electrical power industry can generate, resulting in power outages and load shedding. This often occurs during heat waves when use of air conditioners and powered fans raises the rate of energy consumption ...

  3. Power rating - Wikipedia

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    The power is measured while varying the resistive load on the module between open and closed circuit. The maximum power measured is the nominal power of the module in Watts. Colloquially, this is also written as "W p"; this format is colloquial as it is outside the standard by adding suffixes to standardized units.

  4. Orders of magnitude (power) - Wikipedia

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    tech: maximum allowed carrier power output of a 10-meter CB radio 7 tech: the power consumption of a typical Light-emitting diode (LED) light bulb 8 tech: human-powered equipment using a hand crank. [14] 10 1: deca-(daW) 1.4 × 10 1: tech: the power consumption of a typical household compact fluorescent light bulb: 2–4 × 10 1

  5. Maximum power principle - Wikipedia

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    The maximum power principle can be stated: During self-organization, system designs develop and prevail that maximize power intake, energy transformation, and those uses that reinforce production and efficiency. (H.T. Odum 1995, p. 311)...the maximum power principle ... states that systems which maximize their flow of energy survive in competition.

  6. Watt - Wikipedia

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    This reflects the maximum power output it can achieve at any point in time. A power station's annual energy output, however, would be recorded using units of energy (not power), typically gigawatt hours. Major energy production or consumption is often expressed as terawatt hours for a given period; often a calendar year or financial year. One ...

  7. Electric energy consumption - Wikipedia

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    The global electricity consumption in 2022 was 24,398 terawatt-hour (TWh), almost exactly three times the amount of consumption in 1981 (8,132 TWh). [3] [failed verification] China, the United States, and India accounted for more than half of the global share of electricity consumption. Japan and Russia followed with nearly twice the ...

  8. Horsepower - Wikipedia

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    The average steam consumption of those engines (per output horsepower) was determined to be the evaporation of 30 pounds (14 kg) of water per hour, based on feed water at 100 °F (38 °C), and saturated steam generated at 70 psi (480 kPa). This original definition is equivalent to a boiler heat output of 33,485 Btu/h (9.813 kW).

  9. Performance per watt - Wikipedia

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    The performance and power consumption metrics used depend on the definition; reasonable measures of performance are FLOPS, MIPS, or the score for any performance benchmark. Several measures of power usage may be employed, depending on the purposes of the metric; for example, a metric might only consider the electrical power delivered to a ...