This London-based company is rapidly snapping up mega projects across the globe.
The proximity of offshore wind in the the Atlantic Ocean to deep demand centers avoids the problems of moving power over long distances and significantly enhances the economic fundamentals of mega projects like those currently being considered in North Carolina.
Reliance Power bagged 3 mega power projects for a combined 14, 000 MW last year.
Hopewell has also gotten flak for breaking the cardinal rule of mega-projects: Keep the costs off your own books.
Part of the reason is that such mega-projects tend to be all-or-nothing propositions.
Analysts give diverse reasons for the meltdown, most pointing to the current account deficit fueled by numerous infrastructure mega-projects that rely on external financing in U.S. dollars.
" Kuala Lumpur's priority, he added, was to "put our house in order -- improve economic fundamentals by tightening fiscal policy, postponing some mega-projects and bringing the current-account deficit down.
It will take in two other mega-projects: the planned administrative center of Putrajaya and a separate "intelligent city" nearby that will provide commercial and residential facilities for the MSC's high-tech work force.
During Mubarak's regime, government planners unveiled a plan for city development called "Cairo 2050" -- a 260-slide PowerPoint presentation that garnered immediate condemnation for its top-down mandates delivered as mega-projects that would relocate large numbers of mostly poor residents.
NRG, a power plant developer who has invested in some of the largest solar power projects in the country, decided to give SCS a try as it sought to expand its focus to include not just mega solar farms in remote locations but also smaller projects on commercial properties close to or within cities.
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In addition to the world's biggest airport, largest man-made islands, longest indoor ski slope and some of the biggest shopping malls and hotels anywhere, it is also building a mega theme park, Dubailand, which consists of some 45 separate projects, including such brand-name attractions as Legoland, a Tiger Woods golf course, a Six Flags fun fair, a Formula One park, and themed attractions from DreamWorks (a Hollywood film studio) and Marvel Comics.
She recently signed a mega-development deal with ABC Television and its sister studio, Touchstone TV, to produce long-form projects and series through her production company.
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