The regulatory process can take a while and invite delays and increase project costs.
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Centrica said "the project costs in new nuclear have increased and the construction timetable has extended".
We can assume that means affirmations of estimated potash reserves, mineral rights, and project costs.
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The problems could be compounded by bureaucratic red tape and poor road infrastructure that can cause delays and increased project costs.
Of the stimulus grants so far, more than 80% have gone to wind farms (covering up to 30% of all project costs).
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Because the methodology for calculating subsidy costs is not transparent and poorly understood, true project costs and risks are likely to be underestimated .
When his colleagues contemplated project costs, they thought about development costs, hardware costs and software costs, but not about support and maintenance costs after the technology is implemented, for instance.
The Commission's regional development budget is used to fund many projects across the EU. The local authorities are responsible for allocating funds when the project costs less than 50m euros, Mr Van Lierop said.
Visual feats aside, Fuller, 47, has managed to pull off something of an economic miracle -- at least in the world of hydraulics: He claims his technology allows for energy savings of 80% or more and brings down project costs by 50%.
Natural gas prices, electricity prices, raw material prices, project financing costs and availability, emerging technologies and, hardest of all, politicians, who can make or break the industry with their decisions on government subsidies.
Rules for allocating a project's costs burden local ratepayers rather than distant beneficiaries.
As the project developed the costs also began to shift and change.
For instance, local miners follow the open book alliance method of contracting, whereby costs and the margins are remunerable, and the project is invoiced based on actual costs incurred plus margins.
Australian resource-services firm WorleyParsons reported increased profits but said rising costs and project delays were pressuring margins.
Only half of the companies in the industry could accurately track their costs by project, he told me.
The costs of Project Pegasus were given to Nuclear Information Service (NIS) following a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
Analysts project these federal program costs will increase five fold by 2050.
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Dooley's group is particularly peeved that Georgia lawmakers are allowing the utility to charge its customers for the project's finance costs before it produces power.
This has dramatically cut project management and oversight costs.
One customer, Kerstin Schilling, chief executive of Bestsidestory GmbH, an online marketing provider based in Leipzig, Germany, hesitated a year before committing to Web-based software from SAP, in part because the firm evoked fears of long project installations and high costs.
If, on the other hand, the recession forced a tax equity partner to withdraw from a project already under construction, the project developer would be saddled with a major financial problem, with construction costs already committed to the project but a key financial backer now absent.
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Solar power project developers also have gotten better at cutting costs in other areas, such as securing permits and raising project financing.
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Similarly, if Fred has never gotten project-by-project feedback on what actual costs are, his estimates will not be very accurate.
They exclude costs related to Project Verde, as well as money set aside for possible Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) payouts.
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However, it required an additional council contribution and the authority baulked at the escalating costs and the project ultimately collapsed.
She argues that the governments are looking at the potential economic benefits of the project without understanding its economic costs.
To maximize leverage from Federal investments, the NIB would finance no more than 50 percent of the total costs of any project.
However, it is a very big accelerator that will be needed to do the job, and the estimated costs for the project are about 500 million Euros.
Residential electrical bills from some local utilities still go to paying off the costs of the project, which remains the largest municipal bond failure in U.S. history.
But Moynihan has spent much of the last year pushing to get BofA working again by cutting costs with his Project New BAC plan, and selling non-core assets like its non-U.S. wealth management unit, for instance.
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