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Climate change shifts the distribution of peak electricity demand upwards. The distribution of daily peak load is bimodal and shifts to the right by end of century. Shown is a comparison of kernel density plots of the observed hourly peak of daily load (blue), predicted peak load under RCP4.5 (green), and predicted peak load under RCP8.5 (red), by end of century. Results are averaged across 20 independent climate models.
