Sentences with phrase «efficiency programs by»

EM&V demonstrates the value of energy efficiency programs by providing accurate, transparent, and consistent assessments of their performance.

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The (until now) uniquely human ability to understand the complexities of language, multiplied by the speed of computational efficiency, results in a very effective response program.

In an interview with Business Insider, EDF Climate Corps program director Liz Delaney dropped a juicy tidbit of information about the nature of green energy jobs: Of the 2.2 million Americans who work in energy efficiency jobs, 70 percent are employed by companies with 10 or fewer employees.

«By and large, with the exception of the Conservative platform, which doesn't have many details, the other four parties have... incorporated some degree of energy efficiency program,» says Tim Weis, director of renewable energy and energy efficiency policy with Pembina.

Natural Resources Canada used to have a program called the Canadian Building Incentive Program, which gave financial incentives to buildings with energy efficiency measures, including a $ 60,000 grant for reducing energy consumption by 25 peprogram called the Canadian Building Incentive Program, which gave financial incentives to buildings with energy efficiency measures, including a $ 60,000 grant for reducing energy consumption by 25 peProgram, which gave financial incentives to buildings with energy efficiency measures, including a $ 60,000 grant for reducing energy consumption by 25 per cent.

These efficiency gains in the SR&ED Program could be tied into a common service platform for federal business innovation support programs such as the IRIC proposed by the Jenkins report and redirected to other support programs for innovation.

It was claimed in the budget and again in the Harper Platform that a «Strategic and Operating Review» could yield savings of $ 1 billion in 2012 - 13, $ 2 billion in 2013 - 14 and $ 4 billion ongoing by improving «the efficiency and effectiveness of government operations and programs».

This signature program is built on safety, quality, efficiency and integrity — and has been offered by Clean Harbors for over 20 years.

The efficiency of all PV cells steadily improved between 1975 and 2010, supported by multi-decade R&D programs like the Department of Energy's Thin Film PV Partnership.

This distortion of fact is particularly unfortunate given the ground - breaking work by California wineries and vineyards to tackle the issue of GHG emissions by working to improve air quality and energy efficiency, along with other sustainable winegrowing practices from ground to bottle, through the California Sustainable Winegrowing Program (https://www.sustainablewinegrowing.org/).

We are committed to be the Leader in Packaging Solutions by providing unique packaging expertise, enhanced efficiency and productivity that translates into improved cash flow for our customers through our platform of products, services, and programs.

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).

The program, which seeks to significantly increase the number of energy efficiency improvements undertaken, will create green jobs by stimulating investment in energy efficiency improvements for residential homes and small commercial, not - for - profit and multifamily buildings.

One of his «nerdier» goals in Albany will be to «create a program of mandatory efficiency upgrades for large and medium size buildings that would reduce carbon pollution and reduce income inequality by generating tens of thousands of good, sustainable jobs,» he said.

The MRT was established by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to create efficiencies in the state's Medicaid program.

This program, administered by the New York Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), allows homeowners, small businesses and not - for - profits to finance energy efficiency improvements through a charge on their utility bill.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

This next phase of Sibley's redevelopment is supported by the state through a $ 3.5 million grant from Empire State Development; $ 3 million from New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) through its Cleaner, Greener Communities program for energy efficiency upgrades; and $ 10 million from New York State Homes & Community Renewal (HCR) for affordable housing tax credits to be used to create 72 units of mixed - income senior housing and amenities.

will be closed by MTA efforts to seek further efficiencies or necessary program reductions.»

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.»

Direct assistance is provided in the form of a three - year forgivable loan program that serves to improve Oneida County's housing stock by alleviating codes violations, bringing homes into compliance with Housing Quality Standards (HQS) and improving energy efficiency thereby reducing utility costs.

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.

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.»

By consolidating the agencies under a single management structure and aligning similar and complementary programs, HCR has increased efficiency while reducing bureaucracy, red tape and costs.

The Medicaid Redesign Team has been tasked by Governor Cuomo to find ways to reduce costs and increase quality and efficiency in the Medicaid program for the upcoming 2011 - 12 Fiscal Year.

The release touted their efforts to advance energy efficiency and renewable energy programs alongside their aggressive greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in North America to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, and 80 percent by 2050.

The county also cut its workforce by 20 percent and implemented programs to improve efficiency throughout the departments.

LIPA's solar programs are an important component of Governor Paterson's»45 by 15» initiative to meet 45 percent of the State's electricity demand through energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy by 2015.

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.

«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.

Customers can get a great start by signing up for Con Edison's Green Team energy efficiency programs.

The Chinese government hopes to avoid an auto - driven environmental apocalypse both by mandating increasing fuel efficiency but also by pushing these domestic vehicle manufacturers for homegrown hybrid, electric and fuel - cell vehicles under its «863» program — deriving its name from its launch back in March 1986.

The objective of this study, supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Ogallala Aquifer Program, is to determine if the brown midrib, or BMR, trait affects water use efficiency, as well as length of maturity and level of irrigation, Xu said.

One of the nation's most ambitious and symbolic energy - efficiency programs is in New York City: a $ 20 - million effort to cut the skyscraper's overall energy use by 38 percent

EPA remains «confident» EPA is standing by its prediction that states will be able to accomplish significant portions of their Clean Power Plan goals through energy efficiency programs.

The Republican budget, introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan, would slash discretionary spending for energy programs by over 50 % next year, derailing efforts to increase energy efficiency and develop wind, solar, geothermal, and other clean energy sources.

The project was supported by a USDA NIFA grant, and the study's authors include researchers from the National Program for Genetic Improvement of Feed Efficiency in Beef Cattle, as well as associated graduate students and staff.

Details about the bills are scarce, Cho noted, but «for the third year in a row the Senate panel moved to zero out spending on the United States's contribution to ITER,» «House appropriators would cut [DOE's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy] spending by 12 % to $ 1.8 billion,» and «the House energy and water subcommittee would boost spending on the fossil fuels program by 2 % to $ 645 million.»

As with emission - trading programs elsewhere, polluters in China's pilots have two options: First, they can meet their targets by reducing their own emissions — by investing in energy efficiency, say, or curbing production.

The 2011 UNEP / WMO assessment and the related article by Shindell et al. in Science in 2012 indicate that an aggressive program to limit emissions of these substances could relatively inexpensively cut projected warming between the present and 2050 in half while also having tremendous co-benefits for health, air quality, and improved energy efficiency, in the US and around the world.

And DOE's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program, which does much of DOE's applied work on clean - energy research, would grow by 8.3 % to $ 2.07 billion.

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.

They need to tackle difficult policy issues, such as development of water markets and pricing, expansion of water efficiency and productivity programs, elimination of government subsidies that encourage inefficient or unproductive water use by cities and farms, and agricultural reform.

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.

But EPA says that all 14 finalists, among some 200 Energy Star program participants that applied to its first National Building Competition, will win by making further strides in energy efficiency.

Certification programs like Energy Star «pull the market» by spearheading efficiency efforts, «and then you've got codes, dragging up the bottom,» she said.

Well grounded in math, Possingham began constructing models that performed cost - efficiency analyses of different conservation schemes, ultimately encoding his work into Marxan, a software program written by a Ph.D. student named Ian Ball and first released in 1999.

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.

And the energy efficiency portfolio, which funds applied research on advance manufacturing, building technology, weatherization, and intergovernmental programs, would fall by 4 %, to $ 618 million — $ 412 million below the president's request.

To facilitate the 8 % growth and better integrate and coordinate research activities, the EU aims to create a European Research Area, which would increase the efficiency and competitiveness of European research by avoiding dispersion of funding on subcritical programs.