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Savings from new oil furnaces: A study conducted as part of Washington State's Oil Help Program
Davis, R. - 2008
The Washington State Energy Office (WSEO) has been running the Oil Help program for three years. Originally operated as a loan program, Oil Help switched to rebates during the 1987 and 1988. Rebates for oil furnace replacements made up over 70 percent of rebate funds, which totaled about $1.3...
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Price-Responsive Load (PRL) Program - Framing Paper No.1
Goldman, Charles A. - 2008
market and to improve the economic efficiency and environmental profile of the electric sector. To those ends, NEDRI is … programs, (3) Demand response at retail through pricing, rate design, and advanced metering, and (4) End-use energy efficiency … resources as demand response. The fourth area, energy efficiency, is the subject of this framing paper. Energy efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436330
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How can energy-efficient structures compete in an inefficient energy market
Noll, S. - 2009
The only way resources can be efficiently allocated in our market system is if prices of resources, goods, and services properly reflect their true value to society. However, because of (a) imperfections in the pricing mechanisms that currently influence private-sector decision making; (b) the...
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Least cost planning from a customer's perspective
Sutherland, R.J. - 2008
oil. An additional choice is the energy efficiency capital investment in my home that could decrease my monthly fuel costs …. My decision process, hopefully as a rational consumer, offers implications about the efficiency of various services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437305
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Survey of state regulatory activities on least cost planning for gas utilities
Goldman, C.A.; Hopkins, M.E. - 2009
Integrated resource planning involves the creation of a process in which supply-side and demand-side options are integrated to create a resource mix that reliably satisfies customers' short-term and long-term energy service needs at the lowest cost. Incorporating the concept of meeting customer...
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Economic-efficiency considerations in restructuring electric markets
Hill, L.J. - 2009
; and (4) economic efficiency. We address economic-efficiency considerations in this study. Economic efficiency is important … electric-industry`s efficiency lowers costs and, hence, electric prices. In this study, we look at the sources of (in)efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437344
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Radijo dažnio technologijų panaudojimo logistikos grandinėje tyrimas
Barkauskas, Dainius - 2011
technology usage possibilities and advantages, technical aspects of this technology, efficiency. Investigative part of the paper … of implementation of radio frequency technology which allows increasing efficiency of business management is suggested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009478399
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Material flow and its influence on the assemply line
Sýkora, Ondřej; Vaněček, Drahoš - 2012
Material flow decides how to organize the production – and vice versa – organization decision of the production concerns first of all the technique of material flow. For this reason also all efforts of improvement, including lean production, must respect the material flow. The authors...
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Kreislaufwirtschaft im Baubereich : Steuerung zukünftiger Stoffströme am Beispiel von Gips
Arendt, Markus - 2001
Ziel der Arbeit ist es, den Bestand des Stofflagers im Bauwesen im Hinblick auf seine Eigenschaft als zukünftigen Input für die Reduktionswirtschaft und damit als Ressource für die Bauwirtschaft von morgen zu beschreiben. Hierzu wird der Begriff des Dispersionsgrads eingeführt, der mit Hilfe...
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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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