For its work promoting energy efficiency, TCP has received U.S. Department of Energy awards.
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Since utilities are in the business of generating and distributing energy and not saving it, most of the energy efficiency work in California has been outsourced to companies that specialize in that type of work.
Regular readers of this blog will remember Petropoulos as one of 51 Climate Corp Fellows who trained with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) last summer and interned with host companies to work on energy efficiency solutions.
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Proponents claim that its application can work wonders, increasing efficiency, boosting morale and reducing turnover.
But the report adds it is "important to track implementation in these projects if we are to confirm that the proposals work and actually improve efficiency and effectiveness and it could be a number of years before a final judgement can be made on this".
On Tuesday, August 9th, the President will travel to Interstate Moving Services in Springfield, Virginia, to announce first-of-their-kind fuel-efficiency standards for work trucks, buses and other heavy-duty vehicles.
While bacteria do most of the work, incorporating plants improves the efficiency of the system.
Briefly, efficiency innovations make current work more efficient, in terms of time, effort or other resources needed.
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Gift-in-kind charities don't have to work too hard to deliver high efficiency numbers.
Consider this analogy: a business process is like a carefully designed work-residential planned community, where all the streets are designed to maximize efficiency and flow, and each resident knows exactly where they work, the route to get there and back, and what to do at what point.
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Walmart took supply chain efficiency, something companies already work towards, and turned it on its head.
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But many state and local governments and some federal agencies have been able to work around these constraints and have improved efficiency and raised service quality.
That is why we are funding the highways maintenance efficiency programme which helps councils work together to deliver a first-class service to their residents, at the same time as saving money.
Our new models come from industries that have learned to increase the capabilities and efficiency of the human beings who work for them.
It bids for jobs on a per-transaction basis and then uses computers and software to increase efficiency and its profit on the work.
Any technique that improves our understanding of spinal tissue and improves the efficiency of determining whether potential treatments work will go a long way to improving research in this area.
Within Sony's headquarters and support operations, certain functions have been integrated and organizational structures have been streamlined, while the Company has conducted a thorough review of work content and work-flow process to ensure greater operational efficiency across these operations.
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We will work with governors of both parties to demand more efficiency and accountability from Medicaid.
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For the software developer whose innovations will enhance business efficiency, or the scientist who will work enormous hours to find a cure for cancer, income tax rates are the price we charge for their efforts.
In the Middle Ages, European craftsmen refined the design, improving the efficiency and allowing pack animals to do more work with less strain.
Thank you all for being here, and I want to thank all the people involved in the tour that we just received for their commitment to energy efficiency and all the people they put to work.
Nancy Sutley and her staff are doing yeoman's work behind the scenes to raise the profile of energy efficiency, retrofits, and green buildings broadly, and we are thrilled to award them our 2011 Leadership Award for Organizational Leadership in the Public Sector.
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But the real efficiency comes as much from styling new ways to work with technology, from mobile workforces to using comments on the Internet to develop products faster.
Using unique alphanumeric identifiers for financial firms would improve OTC derivatives markets, make it easier for regulators to see aggregated risk, and, once systems were changed over, would simplify record keeping, improve operational efficiency for firms and eliminate a lot of reconciliation work, according to a report the BIS issued from the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems and the Technical Committee of IOSCO.
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Kristin Goebel, the first American ever to work for Concierge, says her clients value discretion, poise, efficiency and charm.
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With this arrangement, Samsung and Nanosys will work together to create a new generation of cost effective, higher-efficiency products in the fields of solar, LED, memory, semiconductor, and display.
But what we can do -- and what we are doing -- is to work together to make unprecedented investments in clean energy, to increase energy efficiency, and to meet the commitments we made at Copenhagen and Cancun.
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These are private, Medicare-funded groups that work with medical providers and seniors in each state to improve the quality and efficiency of health care.
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As a pointed example of the latter, Boeing depended on suppliers to update work-in-progress on its newly introduced Exostar system, another ostensible efficiency tool.
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The firm will remain as a hierarchical bureaucracy, with the managers acting as controllers of individuals, work being coordinated by plans, rules and reports, the key value being efficiency and communications top-down.
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