Effective carbon policies can break the existing economic barriers and deployment should bring significant cost reductions.
Manufacturers expect continued cost reductions though economies of scale and supply chain cost reductions.
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Manufacturers have achieved cost reductions over the past two-to-five years on the order of 50 percent.
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Mr. Lampert led the charge for cost reductions, and his management team became machete-wielding slashers.
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And leading firms are emphasizing company-wide cost reductions, as strong competition and excess capacity pressure operating margins.
When you outsource, how often are competitors able to equally outsource and match your short-term cost reductions?
Precise cost reductions couldn't be determined for patients in Medicare because it paid the costs directly, Aetna said.
In fact, the survey also finds that the types of metrics being employed are expanding beyond simple cost reductions.
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The ability to measure enables more cost-effective investments and more substantial cost reductions.
GM, Chrysler and the union have been talking about labor-cost reductions and other concessions required under the government's loan terms.
The authority maintains that any boost in salaries would have to be balanced through cost reductions, such as work rule changes.
In the meanwhile, it is imperative that the firm continues making progress with cost reductions and efficiency improvements for its thin-film panels.
Back in 2007 when western car companies talked up their low cost cars, they projected cost reductions in the region of 15%.
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In public sector, he says there is broad focus on cost reductions.
We continue to identify, implement and where possible accelerate further cost reductions.
It would require improvements in turbine technology, cost reductions, new transmission lines and a five-fold increase in the pace of wind turbine installations.
The car industry will need new revenue sources when radical cost reductions from Chinese and Indian competitors begin to bite into revenues.
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With few exceptions, banks have found that new revenue streams or channel cost reductions from first generation mobile banking solutions to be largely elusive.
We would see the same kind of real-cost reductions in MRIs and in every other aspect of medicine, except in the salaries for medical personnel.
"We are contributing to the Fota activities which will achieve significant cost reductions, whilst maintaining the spirit of the sport, " a statement from the manufacturer read.
The world's largest chipmaker posted another lackluster quarter late Wednesday, detailing cost reductions and growing inventories, as well as reduced goals for the remainder of the year.
The lack of cost cutting targets is a further negative, although we expect the company to provide further clarity around likely substantial cost reductions over the coming quarters.
Combined with cost reductions from real estate sales and announced layoffs of 4, 000 to 5, 000 people, Bachman thinks the company could see a 44% gross margin next year.
The plan, which includes both cost reductions and stepped-up investments in new products, addresses a grim outlook for Europe, where vehicle sales have fallen 20 percent since 2007.
Productivity gains are largely tied to cost reductions, of course.
Cost reductions include the elimination of about 1, 700 jobs worldwide.
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But the market expansion of renewable technologies has made possible cost reductions in some sectors, such as wind and solar photovoltaics (PV), and such trends are set to continue.
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Businesses typically measure sustainability either by counting reductions specific to each domain (BTUs, gallons, kWhs), or they equate sustainability with carbon or cost reductions (typically gained through efficiency improvements).
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Present low-carbon energy deployment strategies assume that greater economies of scale will drive big cost reductions, but the historical record suggest that this is less the case than normally assumed.
Mr Broadbent suggests that this is either because clothing manufacturers have been slower to outsource production or because there is less competition, so retailers have not passed on cost reductions.
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