About one-third of that order is for high-efficiency electric motors to power new drilling and refining operations.
There are very large opportunities for high-efficiency vehicles, which include electric, hybrid, high-efficiency diesel and high-efficiency gasoline.
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It applies it to allocating grants for transportation, for workforce training programs, and for the way we encourage commercial building efficiency and electric vehicle deployment.
That effort includes pushing "greener" hybrid and electric cars that stress fuel efficiency and cleaner technology.
It has a crew of 20 plus 24 scientists, and features a special hull that diverts bubbles that interfere with sonar operations, and a high-efficiency diesel-electric propulsion system.
The Ford Focus Electric has received a 110 MPG equivalent fuel efficiency rating in the city and a combined fuel efficiency of 105 MPGe, 6 MPGe more than the all-electric Nissan Leaf.
Chu, a 60-year-old Nobel prize winning physicist from Stanford University, came to Washington with a mandate from the president to increase the nation's production of clean, renewable power, make the electric grid more intelligent and improve overall energy efficiency.
Still, there are few breakthroughs as promising for increasing fuel efficiency and reducing our dependence on oil as electric vehicles.
Conventional hybrids use mainly the gasoline engine for propulsion, drawing on the electric drive and batteries only occasionally to (impressively) improve gasoline efficiency.
And we will modernize our electric grid, allowing us to better integrate renewable energy, increase efficiency and reliability, and empower families to make informed decisions about their energy consumption.
Since November, IBM Chief Executive Sam Palmisano has been making futurist statements about the need for a "smarter" national infrastructure, using information technology to upgrade the nation's roads, electric grid and health care system in a bid to increase their efficiency -- and to make America more internationally competitive and to create thousands of jobs.
The roll-up of energy-efficiency start-up companies by large energy services companies like Schneider Electric is largely resulting from the structure of the market more than anything else.
And if you want to talk about market dynamics at the pump, then look no further than the increase in demand for hybrid cars, which can increase fuel efficiency over other mid-sized cars with the help of an electric engine.
Chile's Chilectra, the electric utility, has its Chilean tariffs set for two more years and is improving efficiency at its Peruvian, Argentine, Colombian and Brazilian subsidiaries.
Chile's Chilectra, the electric utility, has its Chilean tariffs set for two more years and is improving efficiency at its Peruvian, Argentinean, Colombian and Brazilian subsidiaries.
And over the coming two decades, where we can expect even more ICT-driven efficiency gains, the EIA still forecasts a 16% aggregate rise in electric demand.
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We should heavily invest in renewable energy sources like wind and solar power, and we must dramatically increase the energy efficiency of our homes and buildings -- which also would lower our electric bills.
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The system is said to deliver an estimated 85MPGe efficiency, which is pretty amazing for an SUV, and 14 miles of pure electric driving should you wish.
According to Bob Bauer, group vice president of Emerson Electric and head of its Liebert business, which makes cooling devices for data centers, the key to efficiency is focusing on the whole system rather than a single component.
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