Coke machines may soon offer variable pricing for a can of pop, based on the time of day, temperature and the historical demand curve.
According to an article from Fox Business, the huge demand for roses on a single day out of the year means that rose producers have to increase volume dramatically, shipping has to occur in the same high volume, and retailers have to order ahead of time to meet the huge demand.
"The price structures are changing every day because of intense demand of the materials, " said the minister.
Back in the 1920s global oil demand was in the single digits of millions of barrels per day--today it's around 85 million barrels per day.
Looking ahead, demand for TV panels is expected to grow in the next quarter as TV makers prepare for the end-of-year high-demand season and the Chinese National Day holidays.
With Apple, Amazon.com, NetFlix and Microsoft pushing downloadable movies and cable and phone companies peddling a plethora of on-demand, high-definition content, the day is coming when the stacks of plain vanilla DVDs that clutter many home entertainment centers will go the way of the CD collection.
It's all about supply and demand--at the end of the day, which companies supply that in need.
But more that, state regulation allows utilities to put a premium price for solar when they consider bids because solar can be most productive during the time of the day when demand for electricity to run, say, air conditioning , is also higher.
Tim Bradley, president of the carbon dioxide business of Kinder Morgan, estimates Permian Basin demand will climb to 110, 000 tons a day over the next five years and then decline.
Global oil demand fell by 2 million barrels a day in the depths of the financial crisis, he said, while today, demand in the industrialized world is down only slightly and emerging markets are continuing to grow.
If that's not complicated enough, as I write the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has brought a halt to negotiations for the second day running with its demand for a third track of negotiations.
As a result, utilities have to figure out how to balance the supply with the demand when the supply might fall short or exceed the need at any given time of the day.
In 1994 Red Bull entered Germany, where the drink became so popular that the company couldn't meet the demand of nearly 1 million cans a day.
Unfortunately, points out Russell Jones, an economist at the Tokyo branch of Lehman Brothers, although the package is a big one, the size of the hole in private demand that it is being asked to fill is getting bigger by the day.
And, notes Mr McGowin, in many places it tends to blow when demand is low, such as in the middle of the day, and dies down in the evening, when Americans watch television (400 kilowatt hours per year) and run dishwashers (1, 570).
The Department of Energy estimates that U.S. petroleum demand will sag by just 200, 000 barrels per day this year, less than 1% of the 20.7 million BPD total.
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Suppose that the demand for 2.2 million barrels per day of gasoline could be converted to E85 demand.
Similarly, OPEC reduced its demand growth estimate, but still foresees oil demand rising by more than 1 million barrels of oil a day over the next 12 months.
Clearly, we're using wireless more every day, and the consensus of experts is that demand will continue to skyrocket by more than 50 times within the next five years.
Oil companies are currently reinjecting 8 billion cubic feet a day 13% of U.S. demand to boost the production of oil in the North Slope of Alaska.
Part of the challenge with staffing is that demand for passport checks varies widely throughout the day.
It's enough oil to supply the entirety of U.S. demand (roughly 20 million bbl per day) for three years.
However in 2008-2009, as a result of the financial crisis, demand fell by around 1.3 million barrels per day which resulted in excess capacity for refined products.
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At the margin, refining capacity, local demand, these sorts of things matter from day to day.
China's rapidly growing economy will account for 40% of the 1.65m-barrels-a-day increase in demand expected this year by the International Energy Agency, according to David Fyfe, one of its analysts.
Overall, world energy demand will grow 30% to 2030, from the equivalent of 240 million barrels of oil per day now (including oil, gas, coal, wind, etc.) to 300 million boe.
That day will mark a new crest in the rising tide of public demand for action, beginning with a definitive rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline that would enable the exploitation and export of Canada's tar sands oil.
For ten years he's been trying to convince utilities and automakers that electric cars could draw power at night, when power is cheaper, and then discharge some of that juice back into the grid during the day to balance supply and demand for electricity.
Demand, at an alltime high of 9.1 million bbl. a day, is outstripping the capacity of U.S. refineries.
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