Also, before they can achieve a profitability threshold, several renewable sources may need aid for relatively long periods.

The concept is necessarily not a sharp one, rather, it may depend on company-specific cost-effectiveness or profitability thresholds.

In fact, this sets a profitability threshold regarded as administratively acceptable but should, in the last resort, depend on political considerations.

Investment additionality carried the idea that any project that surpasses a certain risk-adjusted profitability threshold would automatically be deemed non-additional. '

A central bank study showed the zloty strengthened above a profitability threshold for a growing number of export-oriented companies in the first quarter, eroding their profits. '

The whole sector is in a difficult situation: with low prices at source for the majority of products and many farms whose figures are beginning to fall below the profitability threshold.

The profitability threshold of an international service, which is directly linked to the number of passengers carried, depends on the possibility of picking up and setting down passengers along the route.

After each interview, she will have to complete a certain number of steps, to acquire information for her market research, to calculate her profitability threshold, and to draw up her budgets and her business strategy.

The operator of the US’s largest railroad network has crossed a key profitability threshold for only the second year in its 149-year history, amid a rebound that has vindicated Warren Buffett’s 2009 gamble on the sector.

A reduction in vessel activities under northern Community fisheries agreements would entail the redundancy of at least 2 000 Community fishermen; some fleet segments falling below the profitability threshold would no doubt disappear, compounding the impact.

Strategic objective: achieve profitable growth FCC continues to contribute to industry success and grow the portfolio in terms of volume and credit quality for all lines of business by focusing on net interest income and profitability thresholds for all lines of business and by generating income from non-interest offerings.

The Tesco board has traditionally been one of the best paid in the FTSE but remuneration committee chairman Stuart Chambers said the profitability threshold for the annual bonus - which accounts for 70% of the possible award - had not been achieved, triggering a substantial reduction in pay for the company's top directors.