With government cuts beginning to take their toll on higher education budgets, many universities are having to reduce their costs to ensure that
demanding efficiency targets are met.
Not exact matches
DesRosiers also believes the federal government is failing to invest sufficiently in research and development, and this at a time when the U.S. has set highly aggressive fuel
efficiency targets that
demand much more innovation.
As I've pointed out before, Virginia's
target is so modest that the state could meet it simply by adopting a few
efficiency measures and supplying new
demand with wind and solar.
Using the NRDC policy framework, along with the proprietary outlook from IHS Inc. on energy
efficiency and power
demand, the Energy Institute report then assesses the costs and market impacts of meeting the Obama Administration's emissions
target of 42 % reductions below 2005 levels by 2030.
Instead, they
demanded an unworkable framework of legally binding international emissions
targets, influenced and supported by climate hawks who
demanded a laser focus on increasing renewable deployment and energy
efficiency, mainly through market mechanisms such as cap - and - trade and carbon taxes.
It is possible that the agency's decision to drop
demand - side energy
efficiency from its
target calculations was motivated by legal concerns, but its decision to keep new renewable generation in those calculations will still be challenged.
Identifying all potentially achievable energy
efficiency savings, and establish
targets for statewide energy
efficiency savings and
demand reductions to achieve doubling of energy
efficiency by January 1, 2030.
The
targets or requirements can include but are not limited to energy storage,
demand response or
demand management technology, and energy
efficiency.
The good news is that policies put into place over the last three decades — including appliance
efficiency standards, voluntary labeling programs like ENERGY STAR, and state energy - savings
targets — have already helped offset rising
demand for electricity and saved consumers billions of dollars.
[3] Each state has interim
targets it must meet beginning in 2020, and the EPA proposed that states use a combination of four «building blocks» to achieve the emissions reductions: (1) improving the
efficiency (heat rate) of existing coal - fired power plants; (2) switching from coal - fired power by increasing the use and capacity factor, or
efficiency, of natural - gas combined - cycle power plants; (3) using less carbon - intensive generating power, such as renewable energy or nuclear power; and (4) increasing
demand - side energy -
efficiency measures.
Being in a position to engage an «on
demand» talent pool that can be flexible, fill skills gaps and seamlessly transform as business
targets evolve, can offer compelling
efficiencies.
According to the Hays Global Skills Index, a study of labor supply and
demand efficiency conducted by Hays for 33 countries, talent mismatch (the gap between the skills that companies are
targeting and the skills that people have) in Japan is amongst the worst in the world.
Key Responsibilities include: - * Proactive, planned - preventative maintenance to ensure our existing equipment is able to meet capacity
demand and
efficiency targets.