An international comparative assessment of construction cost overruns for electricity infrastructure

Energy Research and Social Science

Volumn 3, Issue C, 2014, Pages 152-160

  Sovacool, Benjamin K ^a,b   Gilbert, Alex ^a   Nugent, Daniel ^a  

^a VERMONT LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Construction costs; Overrun; Power plant permitting; Reference class forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927633740     PISSN: 22146296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2014.07.016     Document Type: Article

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