This helps educate the homeowner about wise energy consumption choices, while given the researchers data about actual consumption.
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This also makes per capita consumption hard to measure, with official figures sometimes well below actual consumption rates.
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The survey was based on thousands of consumers who used the Ratemizer application in order to find out how to cut their mobile plans to fit the actual consumption level.
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They rarely take physical delivery of raw materials and have no effect on the actual production and consumption of metal, grain or oil.
In the most typical scenario, the consumer had opted for a 750 minute monthly package, while the actual mobile voice consumption was at or below 250 minute level.
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Then if you add in the value of all of the tax, the benefits paid out, then add in again all of the government services (in the UK including health as well as education, defence and so on) the actual gap in consumption possibilities falls to about 6 to 1.
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It is similar to the PUE rating (Power Use Effectiveness) developed by The Green Grid a few years ago, but it arguably is more targeted toward measuring power consumption and actual operations.
We expect 1.7% growth in real personal consumption expenditures in the four quarters ending September 2008 even under our soft-landing scenario, below the 2% four-quarter low in the 2001 recession (see graph and further discussion in the attachment.) In recent years, we predicted and explained the resilience in U.S. consumption growth in terms of job prospects and the high actual household savings rate.
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