Sentences with phrase «costs of projects like»

Concerning AEP's statement that costs could not be passed along, West Virginia journalist Ken Ward noted: «It's not exactly true that utility commissions aren't allowing companies to pass costs of projects like this on to consumers... The West Virginia PSC allowed AEP rate hikes to cover our state's share of the costs.

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The absence of an Ultra HD Blu - Ray player in the PlayStation 4 Pro — an upgrade Microsoft's said it's hoping to include in Project Scorpio — doesn't sound like a merely cost - saving measure.

Mr. Mulcair would argue that projects like the Giant Mine Reclamation project illustrate the failure of previous governments in this regard, since taxpayers are being forced to pay the costs of cleanup for a now - bankrupt operation.

Companies like Velodyne, which the Google self - driving project used until 2012, have been working on lowering the cost and size of the technology.

Shirky offers dozens of examples of Wikipedia - like projects that showcase the potential of the low - cost aggregated effort now available to us via technology.

Entry to the upper floors — which include rooms dedicated to vintage and modern renderings of the Gucci logo, items emblazoned with Gucci's recurring motifs (like the horsebit and the red - and - green stripes), and Gucci's exploration of the iconography of animals and gardens — costs 8 euros, with half of that donated to restoration projects around Florence.

This project is generating a «phenomenal» recycle ratio — a measure of profitability in energy companies — of four times; typically a project like this needs a recycle ratio of 1.5 times to cover its cost of capital.

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors who are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 percent rate, invite all kinds of tax shelter abuse.

For a large project like the proposed Site C dam or smart meters the utility defers some of the costs and accounts for them later when they are balanced by revenues from the project, he said.

But by raising the cost of one all - important ingredient, the tariffs could make solar power less competitive with other sources of energy, like gas and wind, resulting in the construction of fewer solar projects.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors that are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 per cent rate, invite all kinds of tax - shelter abuse.

At a time when clubs like Chelsea and Manchester City received huge financial backing from rich owners, Arsenal instead chose to invest in their long - term future by building the 60,000 - seater Emirates Stadium; a project of immense cost, which severely hit Arsenal's short - term financial capabilities.

His Vice President mesmerised the whole world with his famous $ 15 million addressing system, his cousin, the Finance Minister sat in his room with his wife and business associates and issued a $ 2.25 bond on behalf of the people of Ghana, his ministers are inflating cost of projects in the name of «typo error» and his cousins selling our oil like tomatoes on Mallam Atta market.

The report by the National Audit Office (NAO) claimed that decisions made in order to save money in the short term, like slowing the production of the Successor nuclear submarine, added an extra # 200 million to the overall cost of the project.

Such a project could cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars - money that might come from SU, a private developer and, like the Carrier Dome, a big, long - term investment from state taxpayers.

«Like everyone else who has been keeping an eye on costs related to projects along the Thruway, we are interested in what will happen to tolls once the toll freeze is lifted,» state Trucking Association of New York President Kendra Hems said in a statement.

The extra money will go towards the overall costs of the project, including paying for final purchases like books, furniture and computers, Van Bramer said.

Yet John Thompson, director of the fossil transition project at the Clean Air Task Force, said Kemper still could open the door for CO2 capture with countries like Poland and India with low - rank coals, by lowering costs for the second generation of plants.

It argues that Australia needs to be part of projects like the VLT because the cost of building and maintaining ever larger telescopes is too much for one country.

A motivated high school student with access to a nearby biology lab can assemble a reference - quality genome of an actual species, like a butterfly, for the cost of a science fair project.»

It also has the negatives like the wood stain occasionally bleeding through, but I bought a sample sized container of the paint I wanted (cost = $ 4) plus the p - of - p (cost = $ 4), and of course has lots of p - of - p left over for another project.

Franco's film dives into the insane folly of Tommy's passion project, how he buys, not rents, all of his shooting equipment, incurring massive costs for no other reason than to look like a big shot, or how he has a fake alleyway constructed to look exactly like the one outside the shooting stage.

Though set on ensuring all students graduate academically prepared for college (like P - Tech, Paramount's project is an early college high school and provides numerous no - cost college courses to enrolled students), each student also completes an apprenticeship at one of Paramount's divisions.

Like the teachers, leaders will be compensated for time spent outside of working hours and all travel and lodging costs will be paid for by the project.

They could do with changing the culture in the Department itself, of a) wasting money on pet projects like Free Schools that don't materialise or need vast debts written off, b) failing to assess risks of funding reforms and provide enough funding for pupil number increases and cost pressures (NAO report) and c) inability to reconcile accounts for academies and LA schools even when challenged formally by Parliamentary Committees.

Thanks a bunch for the answer Nick, it does help bring things into perspective, I am guessing when Volvo is advertising something like that, it comes at a cost of extreme engineering too, considering the truck design overall with drag optimised aerodynamic body and similar optimisations taking into account, which are out of scope for the project idea that I am dealing with at the moment.

Such a car could bear a resemblance to the Prologue concept car of late 2014 (pictured), but Audi's current focus on the most profitable markets means that low - volume, high - cost projects like the this have taken a back seat.

«If a writer submits two sample chapters and a good marketing proposal, and if we like what we see, we take on the project without a dime of cost to the writer.

If Gutenberg allowed everyone to get print books at little cost, Project Gutenberg could allow everyone to get a library of electronic books at no cost on a cheap device like a USB drive.

In cases of loans like these you will be expected to provide details such as the time you think will be needed to complete the project, the estimated increase in the cost of building materials and other cost factors.

Personally, I have found that investments with simple to definable «Moats» (like COKE's brand & worldwide distribution system, Wells Fargo's low cost deposit base, JNJ's three legged platform — branded drug, consumer products, orthopedic / surgical medical devices, Markel / Berkshire's multi-decade culture of cherishing being relied upon, Exxon's rigid adherence to conservative ROIC decison's on capex projects) enable me to not only maintain composure when times are challenging, but also add meaningfully during those times.

Nothing captures the spirit of the holidays quite like a low - cost, passively managed investment project.

It also seems like the nature of the company and the projects that are taken on by PX make the switching costs high for their customers.

It may not look like much now, but as the future site of The Almost Home Project, a no - kill pet adoption center with a low cost spay / neuter clinic, it is a dream true for animal lovers in Lewis County.

Just off the top of my head, I'm thinking something like $ 50k for 4 bite - sized RPGs (and by bite - sized, I mean each would be roughly the length of Breath of Death VII) would help cover some of the costs of development & would show that there's enough demand to justify doing the project.

Getting a project off the ground in the gaming industry is trickier than most thanks to the sheer cost of development, let alone something like Mass Effect that was always meant to be more than one release.

The lower cost of development for PS2 games also gave us the aforementioned artsy games like Ico, and weird little experiments like Mister Mosquito, crazy vanity projects like Unlimited Saga, and a host of other games developed in a world without focus groups.

If you want to know what's really going on with these technologies — e.g. the state of the art of mainstream technology that's being deployed on large scales today, the new developments and breakthroughs that have the potential to produce even more renewable energy at ever lower cost, the major projects that are now being built or are planned all over the world — then please take advantage of the numerous online resources offered by trade groups like AWEA, or manufacturers, or business - oriented publications that track the renewable energy industry to educate yourself.

While most estimates have suggested offshore wind could be cost competitive with other forms of power generation somewhere around 2025, record setting projects like this suggest we may even get there ahead of schedule.

Projects like this are an important tool in spreading awareness about the challenges facing farmers and rural communities due to groundwater contamination and the negative consequences to our continued system of externalizing costs of energy production.

Going after China on the facts would be like attacking their ideal society, a repressed, corrupt, draconian, fake, hollow, even deeper in debt, and addicted to creating an endless parade of major white elephant projects, and environmental destruction on an epic scale, where they send an invoice to a familly for the cost of the bullet they use to execute your protesting relatives.

Like any other home improvement project, there can be a big difference in the cost of installing a solar system with different installers.

I see problems with: * you have to be an active promoter of yourself to get articles read * the review process (mainly there is no ability to assess why rejected articles are rejected and the time wasting because of pedantic comments) * project - based funding and treating research like consulting (if I can tell you how much a project will cost, then by definition it is not research) * since academia seems to be drifting towards consulting, researchers start to become underpaid compared to peers in consulting * the focus on the number of publications weighted by the rank of the journal * status is based on if you publish in a high - rank journal, «selected» to be a lead author, and so on, and not whether you do good and creative research, good collaborator, good colleague to peers, etc..

And the Marin Carbon Project works with ranchers to do much more — like restore streams and plant trees — all of which costs money.

Because all of the costs have not been accounted for, coal projects like Eskom have been unfairly favored, which means that there has never been a real consideration of alternatives, such as wind, solar and other alternative energy sources.»

Fabius I would very much like to see your take on the topic of cost overruns for public infrastructure projects.

It is likely that the first commercial - scale DAC projects will cost several hundreds of dollars per ton of concentrated CO2, but as manufacturing improves over time, these costs are likely to come down significantly, especially if DAC is manufactured modularly like many startups are attempting to do.

Because CCS technology like that deployed at Petra Nova can be adapted for CCS at other industrial sources of CO2, projects like Petra Nova can generate valuable lessons that help us reduce costs, develop fair environmental and safety regulations, and increase investor experience for CCS projects in all sectors of the economy in the future.

Daniel T. Schwartz, Director of the University of Washington's Clean Energy Institute, said a commitment to renewable energy by major companies like Starbucks will ultimately impact the cost of clean electricity across the board: «Everyone responsible for building a clean energy system — from the people that permit the project to the engineers and construction labor that builds it — learn from each project, so the more renewable energy generation facilities that get built in the US., the cheaper they get for everyone else to buy and use.»