Sentences with phrase «hours upon consumption»

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Alongside its other energy efficiency offerings, the company's demand response formula (DemandSMART) entails working with businesses and institutions (a supermarket chain, for example, or a university or manufacturing plant) to establish how they could cut power consumption if called upon to do so (up to, say, 50 fewer hours per year)-- for example by switching off the power supply to a cold store (which can maintain safe temperatures for hours without being boosted), or by cutting a percentage of lighting, or delaying a power - hungry process until later.