This is a big increase from the industry expectation of thirty to forty percent utilization.
Meanwhile, natural gas utilization averaged 35 percent this year, up from 10 to 20 percent in past years.
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"We're already struggling to get folks to come out and get help, " said Rieckhoff, an Iraq vet, citing just a 52 percent utilization rate at the VA. He said the issue is even more complicated for veterans because they have been trained to use guns, which in some places are an important part of their culture.
In the sixties, seventies, even in the eighties, 75 percent capacity utilization was synonymous with recession, but no longer since the mid-nineties.
If your revolving credit limit is reported and your spending ends up surpassing it as a result of all the encouragement from your credit card company, your credit utilization will reach 100 percent.
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Benefiting from the surging wireless LAN (WLAN), 3G wireless and broadband markets, Anadigics has been gradually filling its fab to fuel its high incremental gross margin, adding a couple of percent to utilization each quarter.
By reusing TCP connections, TCP multiplexing can reduce CPU utilization by 60 to 90 percent depending on the application and the number of connections.
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Gartner contends wafer fab manufacturing capacity utilization will decline below 80 percent by the end of 2012 before slowly increasing to about 85 percent by the end of 2013.
An increase of 10 percent in mobility of data led to 7.28 percent increase in asset utilization for businesses in the study.
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The study showed that results vary widely between verticals, with some industries averaging a 28 percent increase in asset utilization by improving data effectiveness.
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This not only improves application performance but also reduces server CPU utilization by as much as 30 percent, which potentially reduces the number of servers needed.
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In the 11-state Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator grid, coal-plant utilization has fallen to 45 to 55 percent from 70 to 80 percent in 2010-11, according to RBN, a Houston-based energy market-research firm.
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These are hardly excessive growth rates in normal times, much less in an economy with almost 10 percent unemployment, with capacity utilization down from the 80s to the 60s, and with nonbank credit sinking, productivity growing rapidly, and with unit labor cost declining.
He did report that surveys by McKinsey and Gartner have found utilization at data centers runs in the 6 to 12 percent range.
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