peak shaving
noun
The use of stored electricity or gas (especially produced when demand is low) to boost the supply at peak periods and reduce the output level required at those times; also as adjective.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Wright County (Clarion, Iowa) Monitor.
- capital transfer tax
- capital value
- capital vice
- capital vise
- capital widening
- capital–labor
- capital–labour
- capital–output ratio
- capitana
- capitanate
- Capitan China
- capitano
- Capitan Pasha
- capitao
- capitao mor
- capitate
- capitate bone
- capitation
- capitation allowance
- capitation fee
- capitation grant
- capitation payment
- capitation tax
- capitative
- capitellate