Incentive programs

The United States Department of Energy purchases uranium in the form of acceptable U3O8 concentrates. This incentive program has greatly increased the known uranium reserves. 

Contract documents should be reviewed. The HASP should reflect and possibly reference contractual agreements. Contract documents can contain much information pertinent to site safety. For example, many contracts contain monetary incentives for completion of site work accident free. If management wishes to share some of this monetary incentive with site workers, the HASP is an excellent vehicle for communicating safety incentive programs. 

Overall efficiency of air conditioning equipment steadily rose starting in the mid-1970s, attributed to consumer demand, government mandate, and incentive programs. For example, the average efficiency, as expressed in seasonal energy efficiency ratio, of new central air conditioners increased about 35 percent between 1976 and 1991. After national standards took effect in 1992, efficiency has increased as much as another 15 percent. 

This review adopts the broad perspective, recognizing that the primai y policy mechanisms applied to improve energy efficiency—minimum efficiency standards, incentive programs, normative and informative labeling progi ams, and technology-driven market forces—can address a vei"y wide variety of products. 

In areas where utility incentive programs were successful, the overall efficiency of a typical building exceeds code. 

Develop a competitive program that may include company-wide competition or facilitywide competition. Implement an incentive program to spark employee interest (i.e., one half day off for the shift that best follows the good housekeeping program). 

In addition to the above federal programs, states have appropriated about 1 billion for conservation initiatives. These cost-share and incentive programs are resulting in increasing adoption of BMPs. The most important of these for soil, water, and wildlife quality are conservation tillage, field and vegetative buffers (conservation buffers), wetland restoration, nutrient management, and IPM. 

One company, WP L, purchases TDF at a cost of 20 to 30 per ton delivered. On an energy basis, this is 0.67 to 1.00 per MMBtu.22 The State of Wisconsin has an incentive program that reimburses WP L for disposing of scrap tires originating in Wisconsin. The reimbursement rate is 0.20 per tire, or about 20 per ton, based on an average tire weight of 20 pounds per tire. With this incentive, the cost of TDF to WP L is between zero and 0.33/MMBtu. The cost of coal, delivered, to WP L ranges from 1.80 and 2.00/MMBtu.22... 

Some FCV enthusiasts advocate policies and incentive programs to encourage widespread adoption of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles today, either among fleets or individuals. It is true that economies of scale in the automotive industry make it possible to produce technologies in mass production at a lower cost than the same product made in smaller quantities. However, while this is an appropriate strategy for some technologies, such... 

Little, Arthur D., Inc. "Federal Funding of Civilian Research and Development," Prepared for the Experimental Technology Incentives Program of the National Bureau of Standards, Washington, 1976. 

The Experimental Technology Incentives Program is now a portion of the Center for Field Methods at the National Bureau of Standards. It was instituted in 1972, when the science advisor articulated many of the same problems that we see being raised in the press today. The program has sought to understand the interaction between government policy and practice... 

Recent events, however, have reversed this trend. The ever-rising price of imported petroleum, the continuing volatile situation in the middle east and the passage by the Congress of a variety of significant financial incentive programs for synthetic fuels has stimulated a new interest in moving previously dormant oil shale projects ahead. 

The typical life cycles of consumer batteries depend to some extent on their applications. Primary batteries employed in portable devices are most often discarded casually with domestic trash and end up in landfills. Exceptions exist in communities where deliberate efforts are made to collect spent batteries for recycling or proper disposal and in communities where battery vendors participate in incentive programs to return spent batteries to the manufacturers or collect them for recycling or proper disposal. The magnitude of such programs is still... 

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