On the one side, they can get a guarantee demand for their products, getting rid of excess capacity, and attaining economies of scale.
Pernick and Wilder chart this migration over the past half decade or so by tracking several trends, including public and private sector investment, installed solar and wind capacity and similar signs of scale.
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With global demand recovering and increasing chemical demand from emerging markets such as China, we expect that additional capacity expansions and economies of scale advantages should lead to market share and EBITDA margin growth for this division.
On Thursday, the boss of the energy firm SSE, Ian Marchant, warned that there was "a very real risk of the lights going out" in Britain, because the government was significantly underestimating the scale of the capacity crunch facing the country.
"It appears the Government is significantly underestimating the scale of the capacity crunch facing the UK in the next three years and there is a very real risk of the lights going out as a result, " he said.
Borrowing on this scale could eclipse the capacity of global capital markets and bankrupt not only the programs themselves but the entire federal government.
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We envisage a typical large-scale plant having an average capacity of 10, 000 tonnes of plastic waste per year.
"There are two big players in Asia outside Japan -- POSCO and China Steel of Taiwan -- that enjoy economies of scale because they have huge capacity, " he says.
Overall, utility scale plants with a total capacity of 3, 000 MW are presently under construction in the country and other projects totaling 6, 000 MW in capacity are in the early phases of development.
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Over time, by providing a market for these assets that does not now exist, this program will help improve asset values, increase lending capacity by banks, and reduce uncertainty about the scale of losses on bank balance sheets.
To put the scale in perspective, the average nameplate capacity of wind turbines installed in the United States in 2010 was about 1.79 MW, up from 1.74 MW in 2009 and 1.66 MW in 2008, according to the 2010 Wind Technologies Market Report.
"Over time, by providing a market for these assets that does not now exist, this programme will help improve assets values, increase lending capacity by banks, and reduce uncertainty about the scale of losses on bank balance sheets, " US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wrote in the Wall Street Journal before the programme was officially announced.
Equally, it would have retained capacity for small-scale missions and important interventions in areas of crisis.
With a combined production capacity of more than 4m vehicles a year, Fiat will also get some vital scale economies for its platforms, powertrains and the electrical components made by its Magneti Marelli subsidiary.
The Culture for Development Indicator Suite (CDIS) provides a timely response to these challenges, building on the current favourable political context, greater capacity for data collection, and the critical mass of field experiences from large-scale projects.
Intended to support both the enterprise and rugged markets, these products are expected to deliver more than 400, 000 random write transactions per second, scale up to more than 5TB of pure solid state storage capacity, ensure enterprise-class drive life endurance, and offered in SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel, and PCIe interfaces.
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Corporate philanthropy is typically played out on a grander scale than individual philanthropy, simply because companies can provide assets beyond the capacity of most individuals, including in-kind donations.
As if to underscore the point, yesterday the Iranian government ordered up 10 additional uranium enrichment plants on the scale of its already operational facility in Natanz, which has a planned capacity of 54, 000 centrifuges.
Thus far, only China has the capacity to produce at the scale, timing and quality levels required by large multinationals across a broad range of product categories.
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