Sentence examples for efficiency upgrades from inspiring English sources
Because automakers will install the fewest efficiency upgrades in the least efficient vehicles, the efficiency gap between them and lighter cars will get worse.
Simple efficiency upgrades using existing technology, such as fluorescent lights and efficient ventilation systems, can cut energy use by 12% and pay off in a handful of years.
Connecticut's Clean Energy and Finance Authority is working with private investors to secure up to $30m in commercial efficiency upgrades.
An official told the Wall Street Journal the panels: will help demonstrate that historic buildings can incorporate solar energy and energy efficiency upgrades.
The Weatherization Assistance Program, aimed at low-income families, will allow an average investment of up to $6,500 per home in energy efficiency upgrades.
PACE allows the owners of commercial and industrial property to use a property tax lien to finance energy efficiency upgrades like solar panels and water recycling systems.
The story highlights a problem that policymakers around the country have grappled with for years: how to unlock the flow of cheap capital for energy-efficiency upgrades.
G.M. has pledged that it will spend $332 million developing engine-efficiency upgrades, with $225 million of that money going into development of 3- and 4-cylinder engines.
Felipe Witchger, the lead organizer with the DC Project, said that the next contract will require participants, which now also include synagogues and affiliates like unions and advocacy groups, to either buy renewable energy or commit to energy-efficiency upgrades.
Mr. Pearlman noted that the county had financed energy-efficiency upgrades and solar installations for 600 homes so far, but he said that the county had suspended its residential program as a result of the Fannie and Freddie letters.
Speaking at Harlem Stage, a performing arts site inside Harlem's Gatehouse, to an audience of city officials, environmental groups and others who helped update the plan, the mayor also announced the start of a new nonprofit corporation, the New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation, that will use $37 million in federal money to make loans to building owners for energy-efficiency upgrades.
