Sentences with phrase «economy of scale for»

Typically, a geothermal project can not produce electricity economically at a scale less than 5 MW and there is a very large economy of scale for projects above 30 MW in size.
Researchers believe it will take years for manufacturers to create an economy of scale for these, he said.
«The idea is to give us an economy of scale for helping students to achieve at high levels.»
There are certain fixed costs, however, so there are some economies of scale for largerfirms.
Nor are there big gains in economies of scale for the underlying components — concrete, steel, fiberglass, silicon, wires, and glass are all already in mass production.
It was concluded that the larger the market the better balance could be achieved between competition among producers and economies of scale for each one.
Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week about whether common standards create economies of scale for virtual learning products.
But what happens if you have economies of scale for video based content?
Volvo says that the CMA provides all the necessary economies of scale for this segment.
And at this point, I'm not sure that the economies of scale for print - on - demand technology are going to prove truly competitive.
Not only does that mean much better economies of scale for making the device, but given that it's pinning at least some of its hope on advertising revenues generated on those devices, increasing the number of Kindle users will be a crucial part of that strategy.
eResource Central also offers economies of scale for customers, taking advantage of SirsiDynix's cloud environment and expertise to reduce the need to load and index e-resource collections locally while maintaining the library's ability to present staff and end users with a single discovery interface for all library resources.
More economies of scale for the eReader business, exchange of ideas and technology that help us all be better digital booksellers, and our being able to bring new capabilities to a very successful retail coalition.
That, in turn, would create the mass markets and economies of scale for renewables that would bring down their prices and make them competitive with coal and oil.
Let's just hope that Google learned a thing or two about managing supply chains and economies of scale for the Pixel 2.
Rather than focusing on each of its 706 buildings «as an island,» the REIT plans to focus on economies of scale for its 124 million sq. ft. portfolio, Kincaid says.
We drive standards and economies of scale for purchasing and cost efficiencies.Comprehensive asset protection — Warranty on all major appliances in the home.

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Economics Sometimes the price difference really is pure economics: Canada is a sprawling country with a small population, which means higher costs for shipping, storage, distribution and economies of scale.
While the president's report does not propose any quick fixes for growth, it suggests that large - scale investment in infrastructure improvements, regulations that ensure the internet remains open to all, and protections for the increasing number of workers who wind up as contractors in the gig economy will be essential.
Islam speculates that contracts for which Zantech once competed are flowing to large firms, which have greater name recognition and economies of scale and can do the work for less money.
A co-author of «Roadside MBA» reports on how various firms plotted their diversification or arranged for economies of scale.
Musk's premise is that economies of scale, technological advances, and efficiencies at the new plant will cut battery costs by more than 30 %, providing a chunk of the savings needed to sell a Tesla for $ 35,000.
Using the best - selling 737 - 8 as the starting point for a new type of 737 could pose such challenges, but may also be cheaper to make because of economies of scale in busy 737 - 8 production.
For a merger to deliver significant economies of scale benefits, one or both parties should be significantly below minimum efficient scale.
In the long run this trend will actually push toward the re-localization and re-humanization of the economy, with the 19th - and 20th - century economies of scale exploited where they make sense (cheap, identical, disposable goods), and human - oriented techniques (both older and newer) increasingly accounting for goods and services that are valuable, customized, or long - lasting.»
, a program created in 2004 by Mexico's Secretary of Economy and the US - Mexico Foundation for Science (FUMEC), launched with the aim of «strengthening the entrepreneurial, technological and innovative capacities of small and medium sized technology - based companies» and to help startups scale their products and great ideas into foreign markets.
There have been many rancorous ups and downs at Tribune since its 2000 purchase of Times Mirror in an $ 8 billion deal that, at the time, was generally heralded for consolidating major properties and potentially offering economies of scale.
Business investment is weak except for mergers that create economies of scale, less jobs, less competition, less money available for R&D and improved productivity.
There are no economies of scale in the market for indexed investments.
The relative size of our economies may be one factor, since there are clearly more opportunities for economies of scale and scope in the larger US economy.
In other words, for the most part, the big five tech companies exist at their current size and scale only because they serve a larger underlying economy of profitable companies.
Regulatory costs are an especially large issue for smaller banks since there are almost certainly economies of scale in compliance functions.
The demand of what we could be rendering is higher than what all of the centralized cloud computing parameters have... I've always assumed that the way to scale, and get people this unlimited rendering power, and drive this economy of rendering that I saw for the future, was to do it in a distributed way.
The scaling back of the Federal Reserve's asset purchase program — both the prospect and the actuality — has created significant challenges for many emerging market economies.
For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.
For example, despite having significant supply - side economies of scale, General Motors never was able to obtain 100 % market share.
The argument from Gavin and other who supported increasing the transaction capacity by this method are essentially there are economies of scale in mining and that these economies have far bigger centralisation pressures than increased resource cost for a larger number of transactions (up to the new limit proposed).
Basing your business in this global industry cluster brings enormous advantages: Network effects, economies of scale, access to the world's best talent, deep pools of capital, a rich ecosystem of resources and know - how for both startups and mature companies, a nurturing entrepreneurial culture, infectious energy, and strong trust relationships that make the impossible possible.
During the year ended December 31, 2008, we had a gross loss of $ 1.1 million due to the lower pricing for our initial vehicles, the high materials and manufacturing costs associated with our first generation Tesla Roadster and limited economies of scale from low vehicle production volumes.
Without it, the company will have trouble securing enough battery supply to make hundreds of thousands of EVs (which they plan to do for the upcoming, more affordable Model 3, to be unveiled in March 2016), and it will have trouble reducing its prices enough to attract Mr. and Mrs. Everybody (the Gigafactory is expected to slash costs by at least 30 % through economies of scale and high - tech manufacturing).
After trading in line with US yields for much of 2004, movements in European and Japanese government bond yields have decoupled from those in the US in recent months, largely reflecting the scaling back in the outlook for economic growth in both economies.
Also, given the likely high price tag of trucks with high levels of automation, it will take time for economies of scale to take effect and create a realistic payback opportunity for carriers, says Keith Brandis, Volvo's director of product planning.
Supply - side economies of scale exist when there are reductions in the average cost per unit associated with increasing the scale of production for a product or service.
Tax cuts always effect assets prices, regulations are estimated to account for up to 35 % of building new construction costs for homes in some locations and though federal deregulation may not impact local regulations as much it does have a multiplier effect on the economy just like a tax cut does and anticipation of an infrastructure plan the scale of this administration's, though it hasn't been passed, would also have an anticipatory effect on leading indicators like stocks and other commodities that raise costs, which we have already seen.
The same is true, though on a less spectacular scale, for the smaller east Asian economies, a number of which have bounced back strongly from the weakness seen in the first half of last year.
Tesla reveals initial plans for its Gigafactory concept, an ambitious attempt to bring economies of scale to the battery industry.
The Competition Bureau in its pleadings to the Tribunal not only presumed VOWs benefitted from the principle of «economies of scale» the Competition Bureau presumed (without evidence) that VOWs were so inherently cost effective that they surpassed «economies of scale» and generated such positive revenue for their operators that lower commission rates were virtually guaranteed!
«We hope to be able to quickly build up the size, achieve economies of scale and operational efficiency to lower investment costs as quickly as possible,» Lin is on the committee responsible for its non-U.S. business, said in an interview in Beijing.
The Tesla Gigfactory, slated to open doors in 2017, will set a new precedent for economies of scale in battery production.
A full - on globalization backlash could undermine hopes for shifting away from secular stagnation by derailing the nascent recovery in investment spending and productivity growth in the U.S. Global trade tends to boost productivity through fostering of competitive pressures, product specialization, scale economies, global value chains and technology transfer.
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