A March report by the American Council for an Energy - Efficient Economy looked
at efficiency programs in 20 states from 2009 to 2012 and found an average cost of 2.8 cents per kilowatt hour — about one - half to one - third the cost of alternative new electricity resource options, the group said.
Not exact matches
The
program, still in early stages of planning, is aimed
at both helping janitors maximize
efficiency and establishing standards and best practices for the use of robots in janitorial work, according to Brain Corporation.
The On - Farm Irrigation
Efficiency Program is aimed
at assisting irrigators within the southern connected system of the Murray - Darling Basin to modernise their on - farm irrigation infrastructure while returning water savings to the environment
We asked five experts who could help us break down a typical shopping trip: Bon Appétit senior food editor Dawn Perry; environmental psychologist and author of ** What Women Want: The Science of Female Shopping ** Paco Underhill; architect and supermarket designer Kevin Kelley, of the firm Shook Kelley; the director of the graduate nutrition
program at the Institute of Human Nutrition
at Columbia University, Sharon Akabas; and
efficiency expert Gwynnae Byrd.
The ice
at the bar is either frozen in - glass or cobbled to improve
efficiency, and the bar
program, spearheaded by Jennifer Colliau, tries to use only liquors from distillers like Richmond's Falcon Spirits who know how to reuse their waste solids and grey waters (leftover liquid from the distilling process).
Head coach Clay Helton announced the return of John Baxter as special teams coach after two years away from the
program, including last season
at Michigan, leading the Wolverines to 12th nationally in ESPN's special teams
efficiency ranking.
Governor Paterson Announces
Program to Finance Energy
Efficiency Work and Create Jobs in Green Economy Thursday December 09, 2010
at 01:09 pm
Cuomo insisted this is a statewide, not NYC - focused, effort
at finding
efficiencies in the
program.
Mr. Fuleihan said in the email the budget office would work with agencies «to find productivity and management improvements by restructuring the delivery of
programs or services, using technology to produce
efficiencies, improving revenue collection, reducing administrative and overhead costs, and funding underused
programs at the appropriate levels.»
Past NYSERDA
programs demonstrate that a typical dairy farm can save 20 to 30 percent of its energy bill with cost - effective energy
efficiency improvements
at an average seven - year payback.
Lieutenant Governor Robert J. Duffy was joined by officials from NYSERDA and the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets in Liverpool today to launch the new $ 3.2 million Agriculture Energy
Efficiency program at the 179th Annual Meeting and Forum of the New York State Agriculture Society in Liverpool.
«With the NY Works
program launching job - creating projects in all corners of the state, these funds will help the state continue to provide low - cost, affordable power to businesses big and small, while also investing in projects to improve energy -
efficiency at public, commercial, and residential buildings across the state.
The pledge unanimously passed and signed by the Town Board
at its April 11 meeting went on to ask «the New York State Legislature to commit to these same clean energy goals, which would represent a 20 percent increase over the current New York State Energy Plan targets» and to urge «Governor Cuomo to adopt a statewide minimum energy
efficiency target of three percent per year of annual energy savings for New York's utilities as part of his comprehensive energy
efficiency program, to be announced on Earth Day 2018, and further urges that this
program be implemented through a centralized planning process rather than in separate utility rate cases.»
The South Fork Peak Savers
program, announced
at a November meeting of the town board's energy sustainability advisory committee, offers free «smart» thermostats and commercial lighting
efficiency upgrades, as well as pool pump rebates.
His 2016 agenda calls for investing $ 25 million in
programs like Oswego County's that join government and nonprofit entities on projects aimed
at improving the quality and
efficiency of services that address poverty.
Some MWBE advocates worry about the «strategic sourcing»
program, which is aimed
at maximizing state purchasing power and increasing
efficiencies in deals for goods and services.
«Agencies will be required to find productivity and management improvements by restructuring the delivery of
programs or services, using technology to produce
efficiencies, improving revenue collection, reducing administrative and overhead costs, and funding underused
programs at the appropriate levels,» the letter stated.
Funds for renewable energy
at risk About half of those funds went to renewable energy and energy
efficiency programs, with the rest being used for general deficit reduction in New Jersey.
House appropriators, meanwhile, took aim
at DOE's Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
program, which funds applied research aimed
at developing clean energy technologies.
That includes
at the Office of Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, and Fossil Energy Research and Development
program.
«We also found a significant impact in states that adopt public benefit funds aimed
at energy
efficiency and renewable energy
programs.»
NASA's Radioisotope Power System (RPS)
program, managed by NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, is funding the development of new, higher
efficiency thermoelectric materials that could be incorporated into a next - generation enhanced MMRTG that would provide about 25 percent more power
at the start of a typical mission, and 50 percent more power
at the end of a mission.
Meanwhile, a number of amendments in the House of Representatives sought to cut the renewable energy and energy
efficiency research
program at the Department of Energy, but they all failed.
Research associates Anneke Prins and Doug Orr conducted the experimental work which was jointly funded by CIMMYT (W4031.11 Global Wheat
Program) and by Realizing Increased Photosynthetic
Efficiency, a project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and led by the University of Illinois
at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.
The next step in the GL - 10 test
program is to try to confirm its aerodynamic
efficiency, but first is a stop
at the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International 2015 conference in Atlanta May 4 - 7.
Many liberals share those concerns about privacy and also fear that research aimed
at boosting
efficiency could be used to justify reducing government spending on many social
programs.
«These results address a long - standing problem not just for the perovskite family, but relevant to a large group of materials where edges and surface states generally degrade the optoelectronic properties, which can now be chemically designed and engineered to achieve efficient flow of charge and energy leading to high -
efficiency optoelectronic devices,» said Aditya Mohite, who leads the perovskite
program in the Material Synthesis and Integrated devices group
at Los Alamos.
Implementing key policies and investments in those three systems — from phasing out fossil fuels to stopping deforestation to ramping up energy
efficiency — could deliver
at least half of the emissions cuts needed by 2030 to lower the risk of dangerous climate change, said Jeremy Oppenheim, the report's
program director.
-- Loans of allowances, or the proceeds from the sale of allowances, may be provided, interest on commercial loans may be subsidized
at an interest rate as low as zero, and other credit support may be provided to support
programs authorized to use SEED Account allowance value or any other renewable energy or energy
efficiency purpose authorized or approved by the Federal Government.
-- Not later than July 1, 2013, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report describing the extent by which the initiative has been enacted and the actual and projected effectiveness of the
program under this section, including the energy
efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions reductions, cost savings, and safety benefits
at manufacturing facilities, power plants, refineries, hospitals, universities, government buildings, and other commercial and industrial locations.
Sponsors: Chemical Imaging Initiative
at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, conducted under the Laboratory Directed Research and Development
Program (structural and chemical imaging analysis); Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, DOE Office of Vehicle Technologies under the Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies program (materials synthesis and property measurement; DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division (materials synthesis); and DOE's Freedom CAR and Vehicle Technologies Office (materials synt
Program (structural and chemical imaging analysis); Assistant Secretary for Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy, DOE Office of Vehicle Technologies under the Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies
program (materials synthesis and property measurement; DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division (materials synthesis); and DOE's Freedom CAR and Vehicle Technologies Office (materials synt
program (materials synthesis and property measurement; DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division (materials synthesis); and DOE's Freedom CAR and Vehicle Technologies Office (materials synthesis).
A new professional master's
program will launch
at the University of Wisconsin — Madison in fall 2015 and become the first in the world specifically designed to train analytically minded students to evaluate energy
efficiency and other resource - conservation initiatives.
Visionary leadership
at the national, state and district level have played a major role in ensuring relevance, effectiveness and
efficiency in the
program.
The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid;
efficiency and utilization of education spending
at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education
programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term
efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.
At the time, we thought our membership would be so taken by the
efficiency of our observation
program that principals would join the Association just to have free access.
As the assistant director / curriculum director of the Montana Digital Academy (MTDA), I'm pleased that a new study from REL Northwest looking
at the population of students who take our courses and their rates of success confirms something we've known for a while: Online credit recovery
programs bring many
efficiencies — particularly to a state as large and demographically dispersed as Montana — but an extremely important element for student success is the personalized support students receive from caring adults on both sides of the computer screen.
The Office of FASTLANE Grants oversees the discretionary grant
program authorized
at 23 U.S.C. 117, Fostering Advancements in Shipping and Transportation for the Long - term Achievement of National
Efficiencies, known as FASTLANE.
The Pilot
Program is aimed
at increasing innovation, promoting
efficiency, and demonstrating the effectiveness of cooperative procurement contracts for rolling stock and related equipment administered by eligible nonprofit entities.
The ECO PRO mode modifies the powertrain management and
programming of the heating and air conditioning, heated seats and exterior mirror heating to operate
at optimum
efficiency.
Huge news
at Mercedes - Benz: Engineers from its AMG performance - car offshoot are developing a plug - in electric version of the upcoming SLS supercar as part of a broad - based
efficiency program to place the automaker
at the leading edge of socially acceptable performance - car motoring.
In «Comfort», it is
programmed to upshift
at the earliest, maximising fuel
efficiency, whereas in «Dynamic», it will stay in the lowest gear possible.
However,
at highway speeds the performance advantage seems to disappear into the transmission's
efficiency - minded shift
program.
«The Fusion Hybrid's ability to run
at a much higher speed in electric mode allows drivers to maximize fuel
efficiency in many driving situations,» said Praveen Cherian, Fusion Hybrid
program leader.
The stop / start function is standard equipment and is constantly active in the Controlled
Efficiency («C») trans - mission
program, switching off the eight - cylinder when the vehicle is
at a standstill.
The AMG SPEEDSHIFT PLUS 7G - TRONIC has three individual driving
programs, which can be selected
at the press of a button in the centre console: Controlled
Efficiency (C), Sport (S) and Manual (M).
The new line - up stems from a single development
program aimed
at increasing the
efficiency of investments and resources devoted to... Read more →
This transmission features a Sport shift
program that holds each of its forward gears higher into the tachometer's swing and delays shifting into higher gears
at the expense of a bit of fuel
efficiency.
The
Efficiency program, in turn, shifts up gears
at an early point in time not only to significantly reduce fuel consumption under practical driving conditions, but also to allow a relaxed style of motoring using the supreme torque and pulling force of the engine available from low engine speeds.
This
program will help ensure that America's service dogs are able to do their important work
at peak
efficiency.
The team
at FCNMHP takes great pride in our stewardship of the donor dollar and our operating
efficiency across our high - quality, low cost fee for service
programs.