Sentence examples for inefficient costing from inspiring English sources

Small, decentralized generators are mostly inefficient, costing far more per unit of output than conventional power or even utility-scale renewable energy, like big solar farms, said Richard McMahon, vice president for energy supply and finance at the Edison Electric Institute, the association that represents the biggest American power companies.

The government subsidises the cost of fuel in Nigeria but the subsidy regime is also inefficient, costing the country billions of dollars.

"In particular, we believe the introduction of a capacity mechanism will make the British energy sector highly inefficient, costing consumers many billions in unnecessary cost".

As my anecdote illustrates, a culture of corruption is extremely inefficient, costs a lot of time (in our case a couple of hours) and leads to wasted wages, among many other ill effects.

"If they want to cut inefficient costs, I say: yes, yes, yes".

; "With declining margins and inefficient cost-accounting systems, many firms do not even have a clue as to whether they are making money on a product," asserts Professor Bala Balachandran, director of the Accounting Research Center at Northwestern University's business school.

Citing slow speeds, inefficient costs and logistical nightmares involving land rights, Musk began work on the Hyperloop idea, claiming it can be four times faster than the train system -- nearly 800 miles per hour -- at one tenth of the cost.

The traditional methods of sequencing cDNA clones resulted in the loss of rare transcript with inefficient cost, low throughput and lack of quantitation of the transcripts.

Otherwise health effects are considered an externality to housing and building policies, and are too often ignored, resulting in inefficient cost shifting.

Policy impediments include tension between housing affordability and health investment that causes inefficient cost-shifting, privacy issues, unclear statutory authority, and resulting gaps in responsibility for housing, indoor air, and the built environment.

It certainly isn't hurting anybody but it's duplicative, inefficient and costs the government about $450,000 a year.