Nukes have low operating costs, and therefore rake it in when power prices are high.
The killer attraction of such an aircraft would be its smooth aerodynamic profile, leading to low operating costs.
Those that do come such as Lucent Technologies and Seagate enthuse about the willing labour force and the low operating costs.
McAdoo says that in addition to having the industry's best balance sheet, it also is well- known for low operating costs.
He reckons his low operating costs and central location though what former Soviet satellite does not claim to be at the heart of Europe these days?
The "low operating costs" mantra appears to run through the organisation.
When electricity prices where high, pushed northward by high natural gas prices, it was conceivable that nukes could pay for themselves quickly because they produce such huge torrents of power at very low operating costs.
It seems to me that the people are following the jobs, which are going to Texas for a host of reasons (though, it should be pointed out, low operating costs due to low real estate prices being among them).
Telegraph lines presented a similar economic challenge high start-up capital and low marginal operating costs.
Building reactors, such as the 1, 000 megawatt unit Egypt plans to develop west of Alexandria, is expensive, but subsequent operating costs are low and stable, and increasingly competitive as fossil-fuel prices rise.
Kirk Flittie, who manages the Global Observer program for AeroVironment, says operating costs are low because the plane doesn't have to take off and land very often and it uses propulsion systems and electronics developed for the company's high-flying solar-powered planes.
In addition, higher selling prices and low maitenance costs helped BZ double its operating margin of 6.55% in third quarter 2009 to 14.16% in third quarter 2010.
So, he looks for stocks of producers with low costs, good balance sheets and solid management, operating in regions with favorable political jurisdictions.
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As a result of current low natural gas prices, natural gas-fired power plant operating costs have fallen so much that they are now displacing previously lower cost coal-fired power in the dispatch order of many electricity supply regions.
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The taxi commission sets fares according to criteria vaguely related to operating costs, and taxi owners are perennially happy to explain that they are too low.
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