Oil companies have kept up with rising demand for oil, gasoline and other refined products mostly by adding capacity at existing sites, but the amount of excess capacity has shrunken steadily.
In 2008, all states combined spent more than $18 billion, or 30percentt of the federal transportation funds they received, to build new roads or add capacity to existing roads.
The quickest and most cost-effective way to add capacity is to expand existing stations to handle eight-car trains at rush hour.
However, even if you assume cost competitiveness, money has to be spent in the near-term to not only add capacity but to replace existing plants.
For example, we just added a new facility in Atlanta, adding capacity to our existing locations in Santa Clara, California, and Windsor, England.
The addition was dubbed "Keystone XL," ("KXL") and was intended to add capacity to the existing pipeline.
The company apologized, then furiously added capacity.
Time to adjust capacity refers to the time in planning for generation capacity when new capacity must be planned for to be added to existing capacity to avoid overstretching the installed capacity.
We have seen larger providers already operating on a national platform and continuing to add capacity to meet demand in existing markets by adding additional locations to their footprint.
With rising land costs, district officials said last year that they would add capacity with expansions on several existing campuses instead and by building fewer schools -- two high schools and two elementary schools.
Heathrow Hub, the group proposing an extension of Heathrow's existing runways to add capacity, also submitted a revised proposal to the Airports Commission.
