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Compressed Air System Modifications Improve Efficiency at a Plastics Blow Molding Plant

Southeastern Container is the largest manufacturer of polyethylene terephthalate PET soft drink bottles in the world. The project was based on a survey of the plant's compressed air system performed by North Carolina State University's NCSU Industrial Extension Service. The first observation from the survey was that the plant's compressors...

Tags: Marketing research, U.S. Department of Energy, plastics, survey, beverage

Case studies

Motor Assembly Plant Saves $85,000 With Compressed Air System Improvements

Founded in 1905, Bodine Electric is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and manufactures fractional horsepower motors and devices that use motors for various commercial and consumer applications. Bodine's management commissioned an outside survey of its compressed air system because their production requirements for compressed air had decreased from the time the...

Tags: U.S. Department of Energy, survey, strategy

Case studies

Transportation Energy Survey Data Book 1.1

This Transportation Energy Survey Data Book examines public concern about U.S. dependence on imported oil, public assessment of the energy situation in the United States, and perceived effects of gasoline prices on individuals and households. In addition, this paper also focuses on public expectations and federal government actions that can...

Tags: U.S. Department of Energy, dependence, transportation, U.S.

White papers 2002-05-01

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U.S. economy seen as world's most competitive

Rank of the U.S. among the world's most competitive economies, according to a survey conducted by the IMD business school that ranked 55 global economies according to 331 criteria that measure how each creates and maintains conditions favorable to business: 1 Number of years in a row...

Articles 2008-06-01

Addressing IT risk: a chief audit executive considers what the results of a recent technology survey mean for her organization

KATE IS THE CHIEF AUDIT EXECUTIVE CAE of a global energy company in North America. The firm's operations are concentrated in two facilities and have grown during the past several years, with annual revenues now approaching US $2 billion. Kate's department consists of one audit manager and two...

Articles 2008-06-01

Morrisville plans launch of Renewable Energy center

MORRISVILLE - Morrisville State College plans to launch a new Renewable Energy Training Center using a $2 million. grant from the U.S. Department of Labor. The school will begin getting money from the grant this month, but has already begun implementing some of the programs that will go along...

Articles 2008-04-11

Wind Capacity Blows Away Records

Wind energy had a breakout year in 2007, according to an annual survey by the American Wind Energy Association. Producers invested $9 billion to install a record 5,244 megawatts of electrical generating capacity in the United States last year, boosting the country's total wind capacity by 45 percent to...

Articles 2008-03-01

Wind capacity blows away records.(news & notes)

Wind energy had a breakout year in 2007, according to an annual survey by the American Wind Energy Association. Producers invested $9 billion to install a record 5,244 megawatts of electrical generating capacity in the United States last year, boosting the country's total...

Articles 2008-03-01

Largest Survey of U.S. Electrical Distribution System Reveals Reliability Problems May be Worse than Expected

TAMPA, Fla. -- "The Exacter 20,000-Mile Survey shows that failing electrical distribution equipment may be much worse than suggested by the Department of Energy's 2003 Study by a factor of nearly 2-to-1," stated John Lauletta, President of Exacter, Inc., whose company measured failure signatures across more than 20,000 miles of...

Articles 2008-02-05

Diesel Price Falls for Third Straight Week; Gasoline Average Declines Below $3

The average national price of diesel fuel fell for a third straight week, dropping 1.1 cents to $3.259 a gallon, the Department of Energy said. The price of commercial truckings main fuel now has fallen 11.7 cents over three weeks, DOE said Jan. 28, after its survey of fueling stations....

Articles 2008-02-04

Alliance Pipeline Increases Efficiency and Reduces Emissions

To: ENERGY EDITORS Contact: Mike McGonagill, Chief Operating Officer of AlliancePipeline Ltd., +1-952-983-1003, mcgonam@alliance-pipeline.com EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2006, the U.S.Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous MaterialsSafety Administration PHMSA granted a special permit to enableAlliance Pipeline to increase the maximum allowable operatingpressure MAOP on its...

Articles 2008-01-17

Wave Uranium Records 1327 Claims in Southeastern Utah

LAS VEGAS -- Wave Uranium (OTCBB:WAVU) today announced the registration of 1327 claims in an area encompassing about 43 square miles; representing more than 27,000 acres. This area is located in the inter-river area of western Grand County Utah, just east of the Green River and north of...

Articles 2008-01-15

DOE Awards $66.7 Million for Large-Scale Sequestration Project

The U.S. Department of Energy DOE awarded $66.7 million to the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium MGSC for the department's fourth large-scale carbon sequestration project. The $84.3 million project is to be led by the Illinois State Geological Survey, which will conduct large volume tests in the Illinois...

Articles 2008-01-01

Statement of U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao on November Employment Numbers

To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Jennifer Coxe of the U.S. Department of Labor, +1-202-693-4676 WASHINGTON,Dec. 7/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --U.S. Secretary ofLabor Elaine L. Chao issued the following statement on the Novemberemployment situation report released today: Despite challenges in the housing markets and high energy prices,weve now seen 51 consecutive months of job...

Articles 2007-12-07

22ND ANNUAL CORPORATE survey & THE 4TH ANNUAL CONSULTANTS survey, the

by Geraldine Cambale, editor It's a case of déjà vu. In last year's survey, I wrote about how our readers' plans reflected moderating growth of the U.S. economy brought about by a softening in the housing market and rising energy prices.. .about the Federal Reserve Bank lowering interest rates...

Articles 2007-12-01

U.S. Diesel Average Dips

Fuel Falls to $3.035 Despite Western Surge The average retail price of diesel fuel fell 1.3 cents last week to $3.035 a gallon, the first decline after five straight increases, the Department of Energy said. Regular gasoline prices also dropped, by 1.8 cents, to an average of $2.77 gallon, DOE...

Articles 2007-10-15

Retail eases concerns

Retail sales in the U.S. blew past economists' forecasts last month, reducing concerns that a housing-fueled consumer slowdown might drag the economy into recession. The 0.6 percent increase was double the previous month, the Commerce Department said today in Washington, and three times the size predicted by...

Articles 2007-10-13

Yucca Mountain plans revised due to fault line

LAS VEGAS AP -- Engineers moved some planned structures at the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump after rock samples indicated a fault line unexpectedly ran beneath their original location, an Energy Department official said Monday. Allen Benson, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Energy in Las...

Articles 2007-09-25

Average U.S. gasoline price rises 4.7 cents per gallon

The average U.S. pump price for regular gasoline rose 4.7 cents to $2.796 a gallon in the week ended yesterday, the government said. Prices were 6.9 cents a gallon higher than a year ago, the U.S. Energy Department said in a weekly report. Diesel-fuel prices rose 3...

Articles 2007-09-05

Diesel and Gasoline Prices Rise; Oil Falls as Storm Worries Ebb

The national average prices of retail diesel and gasoline rose last week, even as crude oil futures fell to an eight-week low after Hurricane Dean passed without any significant disruption to U.S. oil production. The diesel average rose 2.1 cents to $2.868 a gallon, the Department of Energy said after...

Articles 2007-08-27