Tag: fragility

Dominance vs Growth: The Battle for 21st Century Energy

The energy transition ahead is unlikely to be a straight-line substitution of one fuel source by another. It’s more likely

The Emergence of a Less Fragile, More Flexible and Scalable Energy System Three reasons why the energy world is undergoing

“It is a reasonable bet that the $24 billion Hinkley Point C nuclear power project in the U.K., due online

We’ve covered big oil’s structural problems with big projects in a number of posts this year – see Megafragility for example.

Do industrial megaprojects over-run because they are badly managed, or because they are big? It’s mainly because they are big.

In his major tome on Industrial Megaprojects[1] in 2011, Ed Merrow poured decades worth of empirical assessments and statistical analysis