At the time it appeared that the variable (inflation) portion of the rate would wind up being 4.60%.
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When there's no affordable child care, that hurts children who wind up in second-rate care, or spending afternoons alone in front of the television set.
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When the Bank of England dropped its base rate to 0.5%, it took the wind out of the sails of anyone looking for a decent rate of interest.
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The draft legislation comes after months of debate and failed proposals, including retroactive cuts to investment agreements, a full halt in new subsidies for renewable energy projects and a variable tax rate on energy production that sank under pressure from wind and solar sectors already struggling to survive.
Chris Pruett, a developer behind Wind-Up Knight, reports the same 80% piracy rate.
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If your cap rate is 8% you could, of course, wind up with a real return well below that-if a tenant trashes the place or if the house is near a city with a weak economy.
Dr. CIAVARELLA: My normal heart rate at cycling in normal conditions - flat roads, normal wind at 24 to 25 miles an hour - would be about 130, 120.
In the future, solar and wind developers may be required to pay for storage, either through a rate schedule or by investing in their own storage devices to balance services, said Janice Lin, co-founder and director of California Energy Storage Alliance (CESA), a coalition working to expand the role of energy storage to promote the growth of renewable energy.
Putting aside the very real limits to the growth of wind power, the installed base of renewables would have to grow at a compound rate of more than 12% a year to reach 20% of the national electricity mix within a decade.
While the fires still threatened some 25, 000 homes, the burn rate in the region -- a measure made up of factors like wind speed, humidity and available fuel -- was significantly lower Thursday, a spokeswoman at the California Department of Forestry and Protection said.
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At any rate, a group of municipal power companies in the American Midwest reckon that building a wind-powered compressed-air plant to take advantage of the blustery Great Plains will be worthwhile.
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