Download or read book Cost overruns on Large Scale Energy Projects written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Large Infrastructure Projects in Germany written by Genia Kostka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an analysis of why some large infrastructure projects are delayed or compromised and offers important insights into the better delivery of future projects. It provides an important reaction to the ambitious €315 billion investment plan devised by the European Commission, wherein Europe's infrastructure is a key investment target. Germany is adopted as a focus, as Europe's largest economy, and a nation that has seen significant delays and tensions in the delivery of key infrastructure projects. The contributions to this volume demonstrate various patterns for infrastructure assets and illustrate how factors such as poor project governance, early planning mistakes, inappropriate risk management and unforeseen technological challenges influence delivery. The in-depth case studies on the Berlin Brandenburg Airport, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and offshore wind parks show how project delivery can face massive problems, and illuminating solutions are offered to these problems. Overall, the case of Germany also offers the opportunity to assess various new forms of project delivery, such as public-private partnerships (PPP), and the risks and opportunities of ambitious first-mover 'pioneer' projects. The book will be of great interest for scholars and upper-level students of human geography, business and management, as well as policy makers.
Download or read book The Governance of Infrastructure written by Kai Wegrich and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infrastructure only tends to be noticed when it is absent, declining, or decrepit, or when enormous cost overruns, time delays, or citizen protests make the headlines. If infrastructure is indeed a fundamental driver of economic growth and social development, why is it so difficult to get right? In addressing this perennial question, this volume-the fourth edition in an annual series tackling different aspects of governance around the world-makes the case for a governance perspective on infrastructure. This implies moving beyond rational economic analysis of what should be done towards an analysis of the political, institutional, and societal mechanisms that shape decision-making about infrastructure investment, planning, and implementation. Engaging with theories from sociology, political science, and public administration, and drawing on empirical analyses bridging OECD and non-OECD countries, the contributions to this volume dissect the logics of infrastructure governance in a novel way, providing timely analyses that will enrich both scholarly and policy debates about how to get infrastructure governance right.
Download or read book Project Cost Overrun written by Esbjörn Segelod and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new way of thinking about the causes and consequences of cost overrun to firms and society. It is ideal for academic researchers in project management, management accounting and corporate finance, as well as for managers in the private and public sectors.
Download or read book Megaprojects for Megacities written by John Landis and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Megaprojects for Megacities is a collection of 14 international case studies of transportation, urban development, and environmental megaprojects completed during the last ten years in North America, Asia and Europe. It goes beyond the previous megaproject literature to look at how and why each project was conceived, planned, engineered, financed, and delivered, and at how particular planning and delivery practices shaped outcomes.
Download or read book Integrity Risks and Red Flags in Energy Projects written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication by the Asian Development Bank’s Office of Anticorruption and Integrity shares lessons from reviews of six energy projects. It outlines how to identify and address control weaknesses that give rise to integrity risks in procurement, contract and asset management, and financial management. It aims to help stakeholders and those engaged in designing and implementing projects to learn from past vulnerabilities and establish processes to effectively mitigate integrity risks. Additional publications in the Integrity Risks and Red Flags series share insights from work in other sectors.
Download or read book Priorities in the Department of Energy Budget for Fiscal Year 2006 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Governance of Energy Megaprojects written by Benjamin K. Sovacool and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÔBenjamin Sovacool and Christopher Jon Cooper have produced an astonishing and well-written book, based on extensive original research in twelve countries. They explore the technical, social, political and economic dimensions of four energy megaprojects. The large scale of megaprojects always appears to complicate the decision-making process and often causes failures. Megaprojects may even reinforce corruption and erode democracy. It highlights that todayÕs experiences can be explained by statements by Aristotle and Einstein who argue, both in their own way, that is always wise to take the limits of size into account and to reduce the size of projects, wherever this is possible. For everybody involved in megaprojects, this book must be read!Õ Ð Hugo Priemus, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Based on extensive original research, this book explores the technical, social, political, and economic dimensions of four Asian energy megaprojects: a regional natural gas pipeline network in Southeast Asia, a series of hydroelectric dams on the island of Borneo, an oil pipeline linking Europe with the Caspian Sea, and a very large solar energy array in the Gobi desert. This book investigates why energy megaprojects fail to deliver their promised benefits. It offers the first comprehensive assessment of the complicated dynamics driving Ð and constraining Ð megaprojects initiated in the rapid scramble for energy resources and efforts to improve energy security. The authors approach the assessment of megaprojects from a socio-technical angle, emphasizing broad issues of political leadership, regulation, financing, interest group opposition and environmental impact, as well as conventional technological factors such as engineering design and project management. The Governance of Energy Megaprojects will prove insightful for academics concerned about energy policy, energy security, environmental impact and technology assessment. But the book should prove equally compelling to those engaged in the practical management and implementation of large-scale energy projects anywhere in the world.
Download or read book Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution written by Charles Weiss and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-01-13 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument for a major federal program to stimulate innovation in energy technology and a proposal for a policy approach to implement it. America is addicted to fossil fuels, and the environmental and geopolitical costs are mounting. A public-private program—at an expanded scale—to stimulate innovation in energy policy seems essential. In Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution, Charles Weiss and William Bonvillian make the case for just such a program. Their proposal backs measures to stimulate private investment in new technology, within a revamped energy innovation system. It would encourage a broad range of innovations that would give policymakers a variety of technological options over the long implementation period and at the huge scale required, faster than could be accomplished by market forces alone. Even if the nation can't make progress at this time on pricing carbon, a technology strategy remains critical and can go ahead now. Strong leadership and public support will be needed to resist the pressure of entrenched interests against putting new technology pathways into practice in the complex and established energy sector. This book has helped start the process.
Download or read book Finance and the Macroeconomics of Environmental Policies written by P. Arestis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines current and previous environmental policies, and suggests alternative strategies for the future. Addressing resource depletion and climate change are pressing priorities for modern economies. Planning energy infrastructure projects is complicated by uncertainty, as such clear government policies have a crucial role to play.
Download or read book Management Problems Impede Success of DOE s Solar Energy Projects written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of Energy written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade and a half, the Department of Energy (DoE) has spent tens of0 billions of dollars on projects, many of which experienced significant cost overruns and schedule delays, and some have never been completed. Reviews DoE's ability to complete its largest and most significant projects, called major system acquisitions. Specifically: it assesses DoE's performance in completing its major system acquisitions; identifies any key factors that hinder the timely, cost-effective completion of the acquisitions; and determines what DoE is doing to improve its performance. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Importing Energy Exporting Jobs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiscal Year 1998 Budget Authorization Request Department of Energy DOE Office of Energy Research and DOE Management of Major System Acquisitions written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy and water development appropriations for fiscal year 1983 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy and Water Development Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1983 Nondepartmental witnesses written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 2717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
