The capital cost for the waste strategy infrastructure is higher than originally reported in February.
Capital Costs: There is going to be a big capital cost to upgrade the refineries.
Look purely at the running costs of such a system, some 10% of the capital cost.
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And after the capital cost of the airplanes themselves, aviation fuel is the major cost of any airline.
If amortizing this outlay costs 10% a year, the capital cost adds 14 cents to a gallon of output.
Whenever the Central Bank increases the Selic, the Treasury capital cost increases immediately.
The capital cost of implementing VDI today can still be significantly higher than the cost of a conventional distributed desktop.
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Sharing infrastructure with the user base who want only Internet access spreads the capital cost and the economics obviously improve.
It is a fair bet that offshore power's capital cost will fall.
If that capital cost has fallen for the same energy output then obviously the return is far higher now and should be revised.
In the Archives of Internal Medicine, a study asked if a better quality of death takes place when per capital cost rise.
Management also indicated that the iron ore market should remain undersupplied for years on significant supply challenges from new mines resulting in delays and capital cost inflation.
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That certainty has economic value as a hedge, even if the capital cost of wind and solar power stations is, at the moment, higher than that of coal-fired ones.
Offshore wind projects are evaluated in terms of their initial installed capital cost (ICC) as well as their life-cycle costs, which are often described as the levelized cost of energy (LCOE).
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While they may never be able to beat LEDs, these new alternatives could match CFLs and will enjoy, for much lower low capital cost, a huge advantage when lumens are needed only occasionally.
As I described in Part Two of this series, driverless cars have the potential of dramatically reducing the transaction costs associated with transportation, including the capital cost, depreciation, fueling, maintenance and insurance.
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Let us leave aside that capital cost.
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For example, for the same capital cost and ROI, LED lighting may be beneficial in a New Jersey factory, while a new water management system may provide more bang for the buck in a similar factory in California.
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The capital cost and operational details of the solar project are being handled by MMA Renewable Ventures , one of a small crop of firms that has sprung up to provide financing in the super-hot solar and renewable energy markets.
Whether the solution is carbon capture or nukes, the capital cost of keeping carbon out of the air is going to be gigantic, and the economically painful process will probably set off a wave of mergers in the electric power business.
Rogers calls these Save-A-Watts and wants Duke to get a return on monitoring equipment and controls in its customers' premises calculated not from the capital cost of that gear but from the capital it would otherwise have spent to add generating plants.
Up to now, those scale economies of fuel efficiency and of capital cost in these large generating units have been so great as to be able to absorb the additional cost of transmission and distribution and still be lower than any competing form of electrical generation (except of course where plentiful hydroelectric generation could be built).
One thing we know for certain: the cost of capital in the private health insurance industry pales in comparison to the cost of capital raised by Uncle Sam.
The increased cost of capital will lead to pressure on capitalization rates as the spreads between the cost of capital and capitalization rates will be compressing.
But if he delivers numbers like that, it would be a feat unprecedented in the high-capital-cost, highly regulated business-aircraft industry.
Basel III puts the very essence of that special relationship at risk, by enforcing higher capital ratios, higher cost of capital, and significantly increasing compliance costs for banks.
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Over time, excessive capital levels will increase the cost of capital to the banking industry and decrease lending.
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Glas Cymru's proposals will cut Welsh Water's cost of capital, its single biggest cost (accounting for a third of customers' bills).
But because today capital is abundant and the cost of capital today is essentially zero, the same rules are the wrong rules.
By including both the cost of paid-up capital and off-balance-sheet capital, managers and investors would be more accurate in their estimates of a company's true cost of capital, and therefore of a company's real value.
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