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Productivity
a measurement of the efficiency of production, taking the form of a ratio of the output of goods and services to the input of factors...
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Energy Innovations in America's Housing
Building America is a residential systems research test bed sponsored by the US Department of Energy. Building America goals are to support upstream system engineering research required to achieve 40%-70% energy savings using production building techniques, integrate onsite electric power and heat recovery systems and transfer energy system innovations to...
Tags: U.S. Department Of Energy, Building America, Leadership, Strategy, Productivity, Management, Innovation
White papers 2003-08-29
The Energy Smart Guide to Campus Cost Savings
Rebuild America is a program of the U.S. Department of Energy that focuses on energy-savings solutions as community solutions. Rebuilds aim is to be effective at removing the barriers you face when you need to make smart decisions about energy technologies. We have a three-pronged approach to our technology deployment:...
Tags: U.S. Department Of Energy, Rebuild America, Productivity, It Services
White papers 2003-07-28
Complex Electrical Resistivity for Monitoring DNAPL Contamination
This paper indicates, at best, a low sensitivity of the complex electrical resistivity method to organic contamination in rocks and soils. This reduces the short-term prospects of using complex resistivity as an effective technique to directly detect organic contamination. However, as noise suppression techniques improve and further understanding of electrical...
Tags: Productivity, U.S. Department Of Energy, Technique, Contamination, Monitoring
White papers 2003-06-14
Evaluation Framework and Tools for Distributed Energy Resources
This study lists some of the major effects of an emerging paradigm shift away from central station power and towards a more dispersed and heterogeneous power system. Seventeen societal effects of small-scale DER are briefly summarized. Each effect is rated as high, medium, or low, on three different scales that...
Tags: U.S. Department Of Energy, Tool, Productivity, Investment, Finance
White papers 2003-02-01
Industrial Distributed Generation Program
This paper describes about Industrial Distributed Generation Program. The Industrial DG Program conducts RD&D on high value commercial and industry applications of DER, demonstrating the benefits of DER in the market place. Its goal is to overcome institutional market barriers and stimulate deployment of DER in industrial and commercial applications....
Tags: Application, Strategy, Industry, U.S. Department Of Energy, Management, Productivity
White papers 2001-12-10
Advanced Wall Framing
Advanced framing refers to a variety of framing techniques designed to reduce the amount of lumber used and waste generated in the construction of a wood-framed house. Advanced framing techniques, sometimes called Optimum Value Engineering OVE, have been researched extensively and proven effective. However, some techniques may not be allowed...
Tags: Productivity, Advanced Framing, Wall, U.S. Department Of Energy, Technique
White papers 2000-10-01
Mcbroom Electric Teams With Cummins Engine Company to Save an Estimated $200,000 Per Year in Annual Energy Costs
McBroom Electric Company Inc. initiated and successfully completed the biggest and most complex project in its 66-year history. McBroom put some Motor Challenge tools to use while managing the installation of the energy-efficient motors in Cummins' existing and new machining lines. Cummins decided to change-out an initial 296 existing motors...
Tags: Team, Team Management, Productivity, Management, Motor, U.S. Department Of Energy, Telecom & Utilities
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Ongoing Control System Modernization Project at a Steel Plant Improves Operations
Weirton's first control system modernization project replaced antiquated control equipment with a group of modern, state-of-the-art, computer-controlled systems monitored from a central control center. The new controls have allowed the plant to save energy and utilize fewer generators, boilers and blowers for two main reasons - their ability to modulate...
Tags: Weirton, Productivity, U.S. Department Of Energy
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Role of 3D Seismic for Reservoir Characterization and Exploration
The paper describes the role of 3D seismic for oil characterization and exploration. In recent years Luff Exploration Co. has learned that modern processing techniques can extract significantly greater information than was possible when much of the 2D seismic data were recorded in the area. New processing techniques that can...
Tags: Technique, 3D, U.S. Department Of Energy, 2D, Characterization, Productivity
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Kaiser Aluminum Posts Reduced Energy Surcharge for October
FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif. -- Kaiser Aluminum (NASDAQ:KALU) today announced that the applicable energy surcharge for October shipments of fabricated products will be: 6xxx alloys: <$0.019 per poundAll other alloys: <$0.029 per pound This is a reduction from the September surcharge of...
Articles 2008-09-29
Peabody's Miller Creek Mine Honored for Excellence in Reclamation by the U.S. Department of the Interior
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Peabody Energy's Miller Creek Mine in Indiana has earned the 2008 U.S. Department of the Interior's National Award of Excellence in Surface Mining for innovative techniques to restore prime farmland and wildlife habitat at its Sugar Ridge Pit in South Central Indiana. The...
Articles 2008-09-24
CMARK International Announces Approval of Mentor-Protege Agreement
COLUMBIA, S.C., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CMARK International (Pink Sheets: CMIT) today announced that the Department of Defense DOD has approved a Mentor-Protege Agreement between EMCOR Government Services, Inc. and CMARK International, Inc. CMARK. EMCOR Government Services, Inc. EGS is a unit of EMCOR Group, Inc. ,...
Articles 2008-08-19
Kaiser Aluminum Posts August Energy Surcharge
FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif. -- Kaiser Aluminum (NASDAQ:KALU) today announced that the applicable energy surcharge for August shipments of fabricated products will be: < < < < < ...
Articles 2008-07-31
BlueFire Ethanol Receives First Installment of DOE Grant Funds
Award To Fund BlueFire's Second U.S. Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Facility IRVINE, Calif. -- BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTC: BFRE.OB), a leader in cellulosic ethanol production technology, has received the first installment of funding from the U.S. Department of Energy DOE for the development of the BlueFire Mecca, LLC...
Articles 2008-07-29
RPSEA Announces Additional Projects for the Ultra-Deepwater Program
New Department of Energy and Privately Funded Research Will Help Meet U.S. Energy Demand and Lower Costs for Consumers SUGAR LAND, Texas -- The Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America RPSEA announced today that an additional nine proposals have been selected for negotiations leading to an award...
Articles 2008-07-28
Sonoco Recycling to Add Fuel Surcharges
HARTSVILLE, S.C. -- Sonoco (NYSE:SON), one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, has implemented a fuel surcharge for all of its Sonoco Recycling operations in the United States and Canada, it was announced by Jim Bowen, senior vice president. The surcharge will be based on the Energy Information Administration...
Articles 2008-07-28
HelioVolt, NREL Win R&amp;D 100 Award for Thin Film Solar Printing Process
HelioVolt's FASST([R]) Manufactures High Quality CIGS Using Both Vacuum and Non-Vacuum Deposition Techniques AUSTIN, Texas -- HelioVolt Corporation, a producer of highly-efficient thin film solar energy products, today announced that it has garnered an R&D 100 Award from Research & Development (R&D) Magazine for work performed in partnership...
Articles 2008-07-24
Universal Display Corporation Awarded $1.9 Million U.S. Department of Energy Contract to Accelerate Development of White OLED Lighting Products
Universal Display will team with Armstrong World Industries to combine its energy-efficient UniversalPHOLED[TM] and other OLED technologies with Armstrong's product design and engineering expertise into an integrated ceiling lighting system EWING, N.J. -- Universal Display Corporation (NASDAQ:PANL), a key innovator behind today and tomorrow's displays and lighting through...
Articles 2008-07-23
Energy incoherence
JOHN MCCAIN is finally starting to exploit Barack Obama's weakness on the energy issue. With gasoline topping $4 per gallon, McCain reversed his stance on offshore drilling and called for Congress to lift a 27-year-old moratorium on coastal energy exploration. With this shift, McCain has put himself...
Articles 2008-07-14
U.S. Department of Defense Selects IBM Supercomputer to Help Prevent Disasters at Sea
The Naval Oceanographic OfficeNAVO Major Shared Resource Center MSRC will house a powerful new IBM(NYSE: IBM) supercomputer that will be used principally to support theoceanographic modeling and analysis needs of researchers at the Departmentof Defense. The supercomputer, a Power 575 Hydro-Cluster, has a peak speed of 90teraflops (90...
Articles 2008-07-10
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