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.
Briefly, efficiency innovations make current work more efficient, in terms of time, effort or other resources needed.
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That is a recommendation you might expect from a management consultancy, but no less valid for that: part of the recent increase in efficiency in Brazil's car plants, for example, comes from introducing work teams and re-designing production lines.
Which is a roundabout way of saying that efficiency and innovation in public services has to run from top to bottom to really 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.
Greater efficiency thus gets built into the system in contrast to typical arrangements whereby suppliers are empowered to work at the slowest speeds they can get away with.
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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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Gift-in-kind charities don't have to work too hard to deliver high efficiency numbers.
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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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 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".
They can -- he can work to do the things that I just talked about, in terms of fuel-efficiency standards or clean energy investments.
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.
In theory, the PPP was meant to harness the efficiency of the private sector and, in return for healthy profits, transfer risks to the firms doing the work.
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.
In the Middle Ages, European craftsmen refined the design, improving the efficiency and allowing pack animals to do more work with less strain.
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