Sentences with phrase «reduce peak levels»

Optimizing energy usage allows us to reduce demand on the grid strategically, ultimately reducing the peak level of demand when the grid is most strained and expensive to run.

Not exact matches

Some of the cuts were expected as the government seeks to reduce troops levels from a wartime high of 570,000, which it reached during peak fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We would run three turbines now, anytime we need peak load, we will bring in an additional turbine or two and when the load goes down we will keep reducing again so that we can nurse the lake back to its original level.

Our gross debt is already forecast to peak above 90 % of GDP, a level above which the evidence suggests higher debt tends to reduce growth.

But the target submitted as part of a pending U.N. deal in Paris in December — to reduce emissions 36 percent per unit of economic output by 2030 compared with 2005 levels as well as peak emissions around 2030 — has not stemmed the criticism.

Women's levels of progesterone peak after ovulation when the chance of becoming pregnant is dramatically reduced.

They assessed gene activity at time points known to correspond with key phases of disease: the «induction phase,» the time before the peak level of photoreceptor cell death; the «execution phase,» when the highest rates of photoreceptor cell death occur; and the «chronic phase,» during which photoreceptor cell death continues at somewhat reduced levels.

cardiomyocytes exhibit decreased peak shortening and maximal velocity of shortening / relengthening, prolonged time - to - 90 % relengthening, reduced intracellular calcium release upon electrical stimulus associated with a slowed intracellular calcium decay rate, and significantly higher oxygen levelse, and significantly higher oxygen levels

Conversely ghrelin, produced mainly by P / D1 cells lining the fundus of the stomach, exerts appetite stimulating effects and so levels are typically at their peak pre-meal and decrease post - prandially.87 As weight - loss is associated with increased fasting levels of ghrelin 88 and reduced suppression in response to a meal in obese subjects 89, changes in circulating ghrelin levels have been assessed in several IER studies.

Menopause also reduces our testosterone production, causing it to drop to half of its peak level.

As well as reaching peak levels in each of these situations, oxytocin is secreted in large amounts in pregnancy, when it acts to enhance nutrient absorption, reduce stress, and conserve energy by making us more sleepy.

Includes dynamic range control, enabling reduced peak volume levels without loss of overall sound quality — ideal for listening without disturbing others

The KPE on the WRT32XB also protects Xbox gamers from extreme lag spikes at the router level and reduces peak ping by up to 65 % on Xbox One consoles vs non-gaming routers, delivering consistent and superior reaction time during intense gaming scenarios.

The further elimination of 4 potentially contaminated «Tiljander» proxies [as tested in M08...], which yields a set of 55 proxies, further reduces the level of peak Medieval warmth.

Responding to the unequivocal scientific evidence that preventing the worst impacts of climate change will require Parties included in the Annex I to the Convention as a group to reduce emissions in a range of 25 ---- 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 and that global emissions of greenhouse gases need to peak in the next 10 to 15 years and be reduced to very low levels, well below half of levels in 2000 by 2050,

Anthropogenic emissions of CO2 are increasing, and accelerating, and current proposals for reducing them present no plausible scenario in which emissions will actually peak and decline in anywhere near the time frame that is required to avoid what are generally considered «dangerous» levels of CO2 (although points 1 - 3 above suggest that the current levels are more dangerous than has been generally believed).

To reach Singapore's Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement — to reduce emissions intensity by 36 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030, and peak carbon emissions by 2030 — the public has to engage in dialogue with the government and help shape a carbon tax that reflects Singapore's ambition.

As long as solar is a relatively small part of the mix, it actually helps level the load curve, because demand is so much higher during the day than at night, and particularly if you have a lot of nuclear in the mix, solar will reduce the need for peaking generation.

The announcement followed the peak bodies» statement in June pledging their support to the global goal of limiting climate change to less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, and acknowledging that this will require most countries, including Australia, eventually to reduce net emissions to zero or below.

The «initial strategy» aims to peak and decline shipping greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as soon as possible, and to reduce them by «at least» 50 % by 2050 compared to 2008 levels.

It is based on an «extremely ambitious» level of climate mitigation effort where emissions peak immediately and reduce by a maximum rate of 6.1 per cent per year, a fair bit faster than the 5.5 per cent considered in the first study.

«Global warming needs to be reduced from peak levels to 1 degree (Celsius, or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) as fast as possible,» co-author William Hare said at a briefing on the «State of the World 2009 ″ report.

The IMO called on shipping companies to reduce emissions by the year 2050 to 50 percent of their 2008 level, with emissions growth peaking as soon as possible.

The imperative for carbon reduction is urgent — In order to limit the global mean temperature increase over historical norms to about 2 degrees Celsius (the temperature at which there is a high probability of catastrophic impacts), global emissions need to be reduced approximately 40 - 70 % below 2010 levels by 2050, with CO2 emissions peaking soon (IPCC, 2014).

Since its peak a few years ago, Ciudad Juárez has admittedly seen its crime reduced, now boasting levels closer to Detroit or New Orleans.

There is evidence that maltreated children are at greater risk for lifelong health and social problems, including mental illnesses, criminality, chronic diseases, disability1 and poorer quality of life.2 A history of child maltreatment is also associated with lower adult levels of economic well - being across a wide range of metrics, including higher levels of economic inactivity, lower occupational status, lower earnings and lower expected earnings.3 Existing research suggests a ripple effect caused by lower educational achievement, higher levels of truancy and expulsion reducing peak earning capacity by US$ 5000 a year4 or an average lifetime cost of US$ 210012 per person1 when considering productivity losses and costs from healthcare, child welfare, criminal justice and special education.