Sentences with phrase «cost efficiency measures»

The credit crunch and ensuing financial crisis left a legacy of heightened cost efficiency measures.

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Since he took over as worldwide managing director in July, he's launched a dozen internal initiatives, ranging from cost - cutting measures (at a firm notorious for not taking its own efficiency medicine) to a new focus on marketing (a word that, by Barton's own account, draws gasps of horror at McKinsey).

According to one of his drinking buddies from the financial sector: «Any measure enacted by fiat that prevents the free exchange of goods, labour and capital seeking economic gain is done at the cost of efficiency.

Those measuring a railroad's efficiency often consult the operating ratio, which measures operating costs as a percentage of revenue (lower is better).

«U.S. growth of 0.6 million barrels a day in 2017 beat all expectations, even with a moderate price response to the output deal as the shale industry bounced back — profiting from cost cuts, stepped up drilling activity and efficiency measures enforced during the downturn,» the group said.

The ranking was based on five factors: Tier 1 capital compared with risk - weighted assets; nonperforming assets against total assets; loan - loss reserves to nonperforming assets; deposits to funding; and efficiency, a measure of costs to revenue.

The hands - on, multi-disciplined team provides insightful solutions to support your organization's safety programs, cost - controlling measures and efficiency improvements.

The threat, often referred to as the «utility death spiral,» goes like this: as customers choose to install solar panels or adopt energy efficiency measures, a utility will sell fewer units of energy and has to increase what it charges for electricity to ensure that it can still cover its fixed costs, such as grid maintenance and labor.

As opposed to just measuring energy efficiency — which may be at odds with comfort much of the time — the Thermal Comfort Rating Metric (TCRM) would let buyers decide how important comfort is when weighed against cost and efficiency.

Given the constraints that have hindered take - up of cost - effective efficiency measures to date, there are strong grounds for the IMO to adopt operational efficiency requirements that apply to all ships.

The key metric companies use to measure space — cost per square foot — is focused on efficiency.

Cuomo launched the School District Management Efficiency Award, which will reward school districts that have implemented long - term efficiency or cost - saving measures in their management oEfficiency Award, which will reward school districts that have implemented long - term efficiency or cost - saving measures in their management oefficiency or cost - saving measures in their management operations.

«Governor Cuomo's Build Smart NY initiative is an innovative and practical approach to energy efficiency, expediting the completion of cost - saving measures and prioritizing work to ensure efficient implementation,» said Gil C. Quinones, president and chief executive officer, New York Power Authority.

In addition to energy efficiency measures, the audits shall identify opportunities for cost - effective on - site renewable generation and high - efficiency combined heat and power.

A large part of the electricity gap should be met by energy saving measures: the National Audit Office recently found that efficiency schemes cost 1.8 pence to save a kilowatt hour of electricity, cheaper than all known means of generating electricity.

JAMESTOWN - The first meeting of a group created to identify and discuss possible cost saving measures and efficiencies in city government took place Wednesday afternoon in Jamestown city Hall.

These inter-municipal agreements are a testament to the level of efficiency and cost saving measures we can reach together to the benefit of all the taxpayers of Oneida County and for those each municipality.»

Last year, the state required those entities to submit «efficiency plans» to demonstrate cost - cutting measures in order for homeowners in those jurisdictions to qualify for tax rebates.

Edward Miliband: I do, which is why we unveiled plans in February for «pay as you save» insulation, whereby people will be able to spread the costs of energy efficiency measures over a number of years; it will not be linked to the person in the house but to the house itself, so that the costs can be spread over 20 years or so.

At first he said this was because the city was not subject to a property tax cap, but in the face of public pressure said his measures were meant to find efficiency and wouldn't «cost the city a penny.»

The move, which would incentivise green measures such as insulation, is expected to cost # 24m over the course of the next Assembly term and improve the energy efficiency of 20 % of Wales» housing stock.

As a cost - saving measure and to maximize efficiency, the road repair program will be conducted by county - employed Highways Division crews rather than contractors, allowing crews to begin working as soon as weather permits and complete these projects in a more timely fashion.

«School leaders, particularly school business officials, have crafted budgets that continue to incorporate efficiencies and cost savings measures,» said Michael Borges, the association's executive director, in a statement.

Indeed many analysts argue that cuts of 20 per cent or more could be made at «negative cost», by simply taking cost - effective measures to improve energy efficiency.

Importantly, this greater efficiency translates to lower muscle activation (measured by EMG), as well as a smaller metabolic cost in the eccentric phase compared to the concentric phase, when using the same external force (Bigland - Ritchie & Woods, 1976; Duchateau & Enoka, 2016).

Also, a number of energy efficiency measures can be carried out as part of routine maintenance procedures at no extra cost.

«The reforms did increase the efficiency of the school system,» as measured by results as related to costs.

The success of these CLOs will be measured in three core areas; transforming the business performance of learners, creating learning experiences that engage learners and promote content consumption, and improving the operational efficiency of the department by cutting production and fulfillment costs.

By supporting long - term, cost - saving measures within and among the three sectors, the Fund will create efficiencies within and between school systems.

Utilize performance contracts to help meet energy efficiency and management goals while deploying life - cycle cost effective energy and clean energy technology and water conservation measures.

Since most of the measures required to slow the warming, from greatly increasing energy efficiency to land reform in poor nations, would carry other great benefits, and since the probability of unprecedented change appears to be in the vicinity of 50 percent, a very large social effort, one incurring substantial costs, seems to us not simply justified but virtually mandatory.

The ROI measures the efficiency of an investment, and investment cost is one aspect of that efficiency.

Take advantage of the investment that your distributors have made in software and other efficiency measures to drive cost out of the supply chain.

Fahressi Fahalmesta, an analyst from securities firm Ciptadana Sekuritas, said that Garuda Indonesia had begun to carry out efficiency measures, which were expected to reduce its costs by $ 100 million this year.

«Improvements in the Company's performance are the result of strategic business development measures being carried out through the «Quick Wins» program, as well as a tight cost efficiency policy that was put into effect at the beginning of the year,» he said.

Britain has more than enough potential renewables to meet current demand, and enough renewable resource to meet demand several times over, once we've implemented sensible cost - effective energy efficiency measures.

So the costs of the alternatives and efficiency measures need to be roughly competitive, particularly when you include the needs of developing nations that are less likely to be able to agree on or enforce regulatory measures.

Further, he seems to imply that we should limit our efforts to «no regrets» alternatives such as «accelerating the development of low - emissions technologies and in cost - effective energy - efficiency measures.»

'' the cost - effectiveness of many advanced efficiency measures is very much dependent upon whether the measure is a retrofit... or... installed at a time when the baseline measure would be replaced anyway....

Their analysis focused on four well - researched, cost - effective emission reduction measures: energy efficiency, wind and solar generation in the electric sector, and conversion from gas - powered to electric light - duty vehicles in the transportation sector.

However, good windows are expensive, and are generally less cost - effective than other efficiency measures.

The way to judge whether particular energy efficiency measures are worthwhile is rather to compare the total costs with and without the «energy saving» approach being evaluated.

It led to a raft of analyses by consulting firms showing how states could comply and actually save money for ratepayers by deploying cost - effective energy efficiency measures.

The policy will also help build awareness about the benefits of home performance upgrades, as the score comes with a list of suggested cost - effective energy efficiency measures that will help people target investments to save money on energy costs.

Even as a paid service, the upfront cost for an energy audit audit and for the following energy efficiency measures taken will be worth it when you're saving on your electricity bills later on.

This logic works the other way as well — if your electricity costs are high in the summer because of central air conditioning, having an audit and time to perform energy efficiency measures before the highest temperatures come may be the best route.

Often, these programs offer financial incentives that can help reduce the cost of energy efficiency measures for property owners.

After the easy efficiencies are found, further efficiency measures often require greater cost for less benefit; and while greater efficiency may reduce costs at first, it can have the effect of spurring yet more consumption.

Your savings from energy efficiency will more than cover the cost of the measures you take.

First of all there was EU Energy Commissioner saying that completely decarboning the energy grid by 2050 would be no more expensive than BAU, based on the declining cost of renewable technologies and efficiency measures, and the rising cost of the fossil alternatives.