With sweeping deregulation, electricity suppliers would offer consumers price breaks for using electricity during off-peak hours.
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It makes sense that people will voluntarily wait to run their clothes dryer until cheaper off-peak hours.
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You recycle, drive a hybrid, and run your major appliances during off-peak hours.
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The team's ideas incorporate a wide range of technology -- though much of it works around using utilities during off-peak hours.
At the same time, the utilities charge residential consumers a flat rate, giving them no incentive to run appliances during off-peak hours.
This modification would result in both markets using the same definition of on- and off-peak hours and be able to share key operational information.
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The problems include no signal, people only being able to make calls during off-peak hours and voicemail failing to save and record messages properly.
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Discounted off-peak hours are typically between 12 a.m. and 5 a.m.
However, the Department of Regional Development (DRD) has said that most of the work will be carried out during off-peak hours in order to minimise traffic disruption.
Now 56, Critelli spends most of his time lobbying for postal reforms to benefit Pitney Bowes, such as variable pricing for commercial mail to stimulate demand in off-peak hours.
It installed more than 20, 000 smart meters, connected them via a fibre-optic network, launched a website to track power use and has started to offer pricing plans that encourage shifting consumption to off-peak hours.
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The new consultation said that with no new runway or terminal development at Gatwick, the capacity might increase to 46.5 million passengers a year with greater use of larger planes and more intensive use in off-peak hours.
Examples of household electrical loads that could be shifted to off-peak hours via an automated or controlled mobile app include charging a plug-in vehicle, running a dishwasher, running a hot water heater, running the refrigerator's defrost cycle and ice-making.
Giving employees the flexibility to work long hours during peak season and fewer hours during off season allows them to indulge outside interests.
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We could set up systems so that everybody in each house have their own smart meters that will tell you when to turn off the lights, when the peak hours are, can help you sell back energy that you've generated in your home through a solar panel or through other mechanisms.
President Bush said other steps were under consideration to reduce crowded skies, such as charging airlines higher landing and takeoff fees at peak hours, and auctioning off landing and takeoff rights to the highest bidder.
Or they may increase the efficiency of the grid by consuming off-peak load and pushing more kilowatt-hours over the same infrastructure.
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The thought ten years ago was that they would mostly be charged at night, filling in the valley of low off-peak demand, and thus allowing more kilowatt-hours to flow across the same infrastructure.
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Many cities are plagued by bus bunching at peak hours: one bus stops frequently to pick up and drop off passengers, slowing its progress.
Consequently, utilities in many parts of the country offer reduced energy rates for off-peak usage as a way to incentivize customers to shift their usage patterns to nighttime or early-morning hours.
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