Simply, IT departments must shift its focus, its energies, its skill sets towards activities that the business can view as revenue generating rather than just cost efficient.
Over the past half of a decade or so, the cost of generating electricity has plunged as the result of sluggish economic growth and a glut of dirt cheap natural gas.
In our experience, colleges generally have higher fundraising efficiency--the percent of gifts left after subtracting the cost of generating them--than public charities but lower donor dependency--the percent of gifts less surplus--often thanks to large endowments.
Energy expert and occasional FORBES columnist Peter Huber has noted, "Pooling supply and demand nationwide will cut the average cost of generating electricity by 30% to 50%, " thereby making feasible green dreams of more electric vehicles.
Higgins intends to attach to the line 200 megawatts (peak output) of windmills, ostensibly generating electricity at a cost of 7 cents a kilowatt-hour, and has contracted to buy all the output of a 65-megawatt solar plant that would be an eco-loss-leader costing 25 cents per kwh.
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).
They'll be pushed up by higher fuel input costs, the cost of renewing generating capacity and subsidies to renewables in some countries.
This saving is more than paid for by the value of the saved generating capacity, so the net cost of saving the gas itself is less than zero.
Eventually, a successful developer can create a stable of properties that continue generating revenue for years with limited development cost for expansion packages.
The spike in prices in some PJM pricing zones probably resulted from reliance on higher-cost, quick-start generating units, which were used initially to replace the lost generating capacity.
"The Eco Park will help us to treat food and household waste in a more cost effective and environmentally friendly way, while generating green electricity from rubbish that can't be recycled, " he said.
He said efforts were being made to find "cost and efficiency improvements" and establishing new ways generating income for the trust.
He thinks it might be used to cut the cost of hooking villages up to local electricity-generating plants, or to subsidise the prices charged.
The three giant post-Romney funds, however, would be considered failures if liquidated right now, all succumbing to the same traps too many other firms fell into: The huge sums raised made generating returns difficult and forced them to chase deals at nearly any cost, creating an asset bubble in the process.
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"This combination of two outstanding companies is a natural fit, " explained Johnson, citing cost saving due to fuel purchasing power and the dispatch of generating plants.
Thus, while in bankruptcy, American was able to negotiate new labor agreements with its three largest unions, generating what some expect will be hundreds of millions of dollars in additional annual cost savings.
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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.
As the debt burden rises, so too does the cost of servicing the debt increase as a share of the growth the economy is capable of generating.
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