Sentences with phrase «reduces price efficiency»

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Restricted supply and growing demand drives up prices, and blocks new entrants into the market — stifling competition, reducing efficiency, and hurting consumers.

As energy prices go up, more customers will look to energy efficiency and distributed energy resources to reduce their energy bills, which will continue to push electricity prices up and drive customers toward other energy sources and services.

On the positive side, the change would potentially reduce complexity and increase market stability efficiency, while making it easier for brokers to ensure they are getting the best prices for their clients.

Government's structural reforms and initiatives to improve business efficiency tend to reduce prices

The results have proved disastrous, but the idea has not died that, when correctly done, liberalization will improve efficiency and reduce prices.

«We're focused on reducing our internal costs and increasing our efficiencies across our business in order to avoid raising our prices,» Wasserstrom adds.

As farmers increase production, improve crop quality, reduce worker complaints, and increase worker efficiency, while differentiating their product, improving their access to credit, and often earning premium prices.

It is now widely thought that raising production levels alone will not solve the problem and that what is needed is greater efficiency in supply chains to raise food outputs and help reduce consumer prices.

The upcoming Sustainable Foods Summit will feature how greater efficiency in supply chains can raise food output and help reduce consumer prices.

When it comes to America and goes on sale at an as yet undetermined price, the 2015 e-Golf will represent a factory once written off as uncompetitive and a company in the midst of transformation, determined to reduce energy use and material waste in its plants, to use lightweight, hot - formed steel wherever possible, and to scrape away every gram of excess metal from engine components for better efficiency.

«AMT is ideally suited for India's traffic conditions, reducing the stress of driving at an affordable price, without compromising on fuel efficiency.

This reduces emergency braking distance and contributes to fuel efficiency improvement, auto component downsizing and price competitiveness of cars.

A 2016 Ford Escape in Texas will save you money with a super-low starting price and fuel efficiency that significantly reduces your trips to the gas pump.

Speculators who are selling shares to the market maker through a short sale actually reduces the market's efficiency, enhancing the prospects for share prices to fall and make the short sale profitable.

I doubt that politicians truely understand the problem at hand, it is not as if we have a new energy technology ready to fill in for fossil fusl at the present time and whilst I am sure than energy efficiency can reduce carbon emissions by around 25 % it will be left to the markets to decide this and that means awaiting the onset of peak fossil fuels to push up the price of it that will make other energy sources more viable.

The oil shocks of the 1970s were followed by low prices, and away went almost all the research and efficiency initiatives that might have reduced American dependence on imported oil (and CO2 emissions).

Alongside supply chain efficiencies, technical improvements and other wizardry that led to this low price, Business Green also reports that the Dutch wind farm sites offered very favorable seabed conditions — which presumably reduced costs considerably too.

A wide range of policies aimed at increasing conservation, efficiency, and reducing emissions is vital, but carbon prices and regulations alone will not create new, clean and affordable energy systems soon enough or at the scale needed.

Let's reword all this and say that we want to improve energy efficiency and reduce waste and real pollution wherever we can, we want to move away from ever scarcer and costlier fossil fuels, particularly those that have to be imported from a price - fixing cartel of nations that are generally hostile to us and we want to develop new domestic sources of energy, be that shale oil and gas, new biofuels (not silly corn - to - ethanol schemes) and other renewable energy sources, etc..

Electricity expenditures also generally rise with Clean Power Plan implementation, but expenditure changes are smaller in percentage terms than price changes as the combination of energy - efficiency programs pursued for compliance purposes and higher electricity prices tends to reduce electricity consumption relative to baseline.

It has also increased over time, as measures to improve energy efficiency and reduce waste plus pollution have been implemented, and there is no doubt that this improvement will continue, partly as a result of increasing fossil fuel prices and other market - driven considerations.

Incorporating end - use energy efficiency into a 111 (d) rulemaking will reduce the costs of complying with other federal air regulations, helping to ensure that the power sector maintains reliability and that electricity prices remain affordable.

Higher electricity prices, real - time pricing, and new efficiency standards can reduce growth in electricity demand.

He said: «Energy price freezes are a temporary solution to a much bigger, long term problem that is also about energy efficiency, reducing energy usage, the UK's carbon footprint and our dependence on fossil fuels.

We've already seen in Australia how rooftop solar, improved efficiency, and a low carbon price have reduced demand for grid electricity resulted in the shutdown of gigawatts of coal power and the shelving of plans for new gas capacity.

When enabled by adequate information and pricing, DERs can drive greater system efficiencies, facilitate the integration of variable renewable resources both in front of and behind the meter, and reduce the overall energy bill for the benefit of all New York customers.

Ironically, had these regulations been in place for the last two years, Massachusetts might have seen increased investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy generation that would have mitigated the price spikes we've seen these past two winters by reducing our dependence on natural gas.

Again, states have plenty of leeway on how to reduce emissions: they can switch from coal to natural gas, expand renewables or nuclear, boost energy efficiency, enact carbon pricing... And if states refuse to submit a plan, the EPA will impose its own federal plan, which could involve some sort of cap - and - trade program.

In terms of how to respond to rebound effects, the report points out: «Carbon / energy pricing can reduce direct and indirect rebound effects by ensuring that the cost of energy services remains relatively constant while energy efficiency improves.

Carbon taxes will lend predictability to energy prices, whereas cap - and - trade systems will only exacerbate price volatility that discourages investments in carbon - reducing energy efficiency and carbon - replacing renewable energy.

Low - cost efficiency reduces both the number of units procured in the capacity auctions and the price paid to all resources.

The added costs imposed by intermittent energy sources like wind energy include the displacement of lower cost generation (e.g., natural gas), requirement of dispatchable backup generation, reduced capacity factors for conventional generation, increased electric price volatility, and decreased system efficiency.

A high enough carbon price would incentivise more efficiency and level the playing field for other, less polluting means of transport, such as railways, thus reducing overall emissions.

By reducing demand, energy efficiency brings about lower wholesale power prices for all customers, they noted.

We explore how the inclusion of energy efficiency in these auctions reduces system - wide prices and retail customer rates.

In addition, energy efficiency reduces the cost of meeting peak demand during periods of high temperatures and high prices.

rise in oil price reducing farming efficiency (fertilizer price, mechanical aids more expensive,...)?

Canadian transportation experts Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl suggest that oil prices will reduce domestic flying by 40 % by 2025, even with a 50 % increase in fuel efficiency.

Higher resulting prices, presumably, would result in greater efficiency and reduce unnecessary consumption.

Even if it's not considered as cool to ride an electric bus than to drive a Tesla, buses are much more efficient in not only the utilization of space on the road, but also in terms of fuel - efficiency (as measured in Person - Miles Per Gallon (PMPG)-RRB-, so with a switch to electric buses, which are less susceptible to volatile fuel prices and have lower maintenance costs, cities can actually save energy and money while reducing emissions.

-LSB-...] In our central scenario, taking into account the impact of measures already announced by governments to improve energy efficiency, support renewables, reduce fossil - fuel subsidies and, in some cases, to put a price on carbon, energy - related CO2 emissions still rise by 20 % to 2035.

Simple cycle gas turbine plants (dashed line) required similar prices to gas - fired thermal plants until 1985 - 90, when improving turbine efficiency reduced fuel and lowered required prices.

This occurs because higher prices encourage all possible avenues of reducing energy consumption — which efficiency standards do not.

Several Democratic senators have urged their colleagues to steer away from any carbon - pricing mechanism and focus on a narrower — but still weighty — bill that reduces foreign oil dependence by developing cleaner energy sources and increasing efficiency standards.

Most countries have suites of policies designed to reduce their emissions: cue electrification of transportation, building efficiency codes, carbon pricing, etc..

The new framework comprises four main pillars: pricing carbon; complementary measures to further reduce emissions such as energy efficiency standards; measures to adapt to the impacts of climate change and build resilience; and actions to accelerate innovation, support clean technology and create jobs.

The long - term future of the global auto industry is in high - efficiency vehicles, due to the likelihood of higher future oil prices and a worldwide push to reduce vehicle emissions.

Efficiency, automation, and systematization are internal practices that can reduce your costs and make it possible for you to compete on price without threatening your profitability.

Automation makes reduced prices much more attainable by increasing your productivity and efficiency.

We are using AI and legal technology to drive efficiency, increase price predictability and reduce risk where appropriate.