The council said "efficiency savings" would be made across the organisation.
David Miliband, the new minister of communities and local government, will also want to ensure that councils achieve efficiency savings from the £625m of Whitehall money invested in local e-government.
It's bad enough that Duncan Smith is using his position to hammer councils on efficiency when he hasn't discussed the facts with them, but let's also not forget the impact of welfare reform.
Councils said efficiency savings could not offset a shortfall of billions of pounds in care budgets.
Steve Nadel, executive director of the energy efficiency council, agrees.
The DH reported that by making electronic monitoring a contractual requirement for third party providers, Hertfordshire county council received immediate efficiency returns, which were reinvested in to service improvements.
The House of Representatives and Senate versions of the Save American Energy Act, also stalled, call for 15 percent electricity savings and 10 percent natural gas savings in that period, which would eliminate the need to build 390 power plants, according to the energy efficiency council.
"It's really small gains across the whole truck, a lot of small opportunities," said Mike Roeth, trucking operations lead at the North American Council for Freight Efficiency, which partners with Richard Branson's Carbon War Room to make trucking more fuel efficient.
If 40 of those devices and driver strategies were employed together, it could cut a truck's average annual fuel cost of $70,000 almost in half, said Mike Roeth, trucking operations lead at the North American Council for Freight Efficiency, which is partnering with Richard Branson's Carbon War Room to make trucking more fuel efficient.
The time has passed when councils can make efficiency savings.
