It has called on the government to set up an emergency capital highways maintenance fund, as it did following the floods which hit swathes of the country in summer 2007.
The economies of scale, flexibility and efficiency they offer will not only save organizations massive amounts of capital and maintenance costs but emancipate them to apply and use information as never before.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the long-term cost of solar power (including capital investment and maintenance) comes to 25 cents per kilowatthour.
The maintenance capital, the cost of boxes continue to decline.
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Many utilities lack the depth of data needed to implement more cost-effective asset-management systems like condition-based monitoring and maintenance methods, which utilities in Europe and Asia are adopting to enhance the efficient use of capital and reduce operations and maintenance costs.
The adjustment we're talking about is to subtract maintenance-level capital expenditures, such as for boilers, plumbing and roofs.
The stock trades at 21 times its adjusted funds from operations (net plus depreciation minus maintenance-level capital outlays).
This measure, an obsession of real estate research firm Green Street Advisors (which provides us with much of our REIT data), is net income plus depreciation minus maintenance-level capital expenditures.
Follow with utilities, cost of capital, training, advertising, maintenance, insurance, and the rest until you have accounted for all the overhead, leaving those few lonesome pennies of profit that you have risked everything to make.
Although this concept still means different things to different stakeholders, our position is that a Green Economy, or indeed any economy that is to be healthy and sustainable over the long-term, has to have at its core the maintenance of our natural capital.
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No capital expenses, no vast spikes in maintenance costs, no resource and skill requirements.
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Most clients don't seem to mind the fees, either, viewing the inspection of a company's human capital as something just as vital as maintenance of plant and equipment.
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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What nongovernment entity is going to lay out the necessary billions of dollars if politically minded state rate-setters won't let them recover both the capital outlay and the true cost of maintenance, not to mention earning a decent return for shareholders and creditors?
Generation and distribution are large capital expenditures while the engineering, fuel and maintenance all add up.
Still misunderstood, capital spending for coal operators goes mainly for maintenance, not new mine capacity.
This same friend brought the three of us together in a company he had founded that was, among other things, focused on developing maintenance manuals and assembly instructions for capital equipment.
Through virtual desktop integration, Cisco Cius offers flexible computing options with cloud-based services, providing dramatically lower capital costs and cost-per-user for desktop maintenance.
How, though, can all this modernisation be squared with the maintenance of what every senior official says is the capital's great quality, its function as the ancient vessel of Chinese history and culture?
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