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  • Open Access
28 Citations
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Causes of Delay in Power Transmission Projects: An Empirical Study

  • Goutom K. Pall,
  • Adrian J. Bridge,
  • Jason Gray and
  • Martin Skitmore

19 December 2019

Power transmission (PT) projects are vital for the power sector. However, worldwide PT projects experience delay. There is an urgent need to understand the unique causes of delays in PT projects. This paper presents the first empirical study on cause...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,887 Views
22 Pages

7 February 2022

Given the growing number of development projects, proper project planning and management are crucial. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a heuristic algorithm for scheduling a power plant project construction and project resource management to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
18,714 Views
16 Pages

27 October 2019

Few studies have verified the different causes of project delays between the owner and contractor perspectives. This article’s goal is to find what the causes of delay are and how to mitigate this delay depending on project performance. Thus, t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Construction Engineering and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,472 Views
21 Pages

15 January 2019

Interconnection of transnational power grids plays an important role in realizing the optimal allocation of energy resources. It can also deepen regional economic cooperation, achieve energy conservation and emission reduction, and improve people&rsq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Citations
9,657 Views
29 Pages

Evaluating Green Technology Strategies for the Sustainable Development of Solar Power Projects: Evidence from Pakistan

  • Shahid Ali,
  • Qingyou Yan,
  • Muhammad Sajjad Hussain,
  • Muhammad Irfan and ,
  • Munir Ahmad,
  • Asif Razzaq,
  • Vishal Dagar and
  • Cem Işık
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

24 November 2021

Energy is the main element for a modern lifestyle that must be considered in economically reliable and sustainable development dialogues. The financial performance of solar power projects has become the main issue, especially in developing countries...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Technologies towards Cleaner Production and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,301 Views
20 Pages

2 February 2022

With the reform of the power system in China, investments in power grid projects across the whole power system are increasing. However, there are various objectives to achieve in the investment decision processes of power grid projects, so the ration...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
10,776 Views
11 Pages

A lot of companies in the power sector use Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contracts for complex infrastructure projects such as power plants. This paper presents a series two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach for the ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,522 Views
19 Pages

“Not In My Back Yard” (NIMBY) conflicts have emerged as a significant challenge in the siting and construction of power grid projects. Traditional risk management methods are often inadequate for addressing the complex interactions betwee...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,124 Views
23 Pages

Benefit Evaluation of Carbon Reduction in Power Transmission and Transformation Projects Based on the Modified TOPSIS-RSR Method

  • Yinan Wang,
  • Heng Chen,
  • Shuyuan Zhao,
  • Lanxin Fan and ,
  • Cheng Xin,
  • Xue Jiang and
  • Fan Yao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 June 2024

In order to fully achieve energy saving goals, it is necessary to establish a comprehensive evaluation system for carbon reduction in transmission and transformation projects. Subsequently, weights were assigned to these indicators using a combinatio...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,002 Views
32 Pages

Research on Environmental Risk Monitoring and Advance Warning Technologies of Power Transmission and Distribution Projects Construction Phase

  • Xiaohu Sun,
  • Fei Liu,
  • Yu Zhao,
  • Fang Liu and ,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Shu Zhu,
  • Qiang He,
  • Yu Bai and
  • Jiyong Zhang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

1 December 2024

The threat power transmission and distribution projects pose to the ecological environment has been widely discussed by researchers. The scarcity of early environmental monitoring and supervision technologies, particularly the lack of effective real-...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
11,499 Views
32 Pages

16 November 2022

Thermal energy storage (TES) is the most suitable solution found to improve the concentrating solar power (CSP) plant’s dispatchability. Molten salts used as sensible heat storage (SHS) are the most widespread TES medium. However, novel and pro...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,853 Views
30 Pages

A Systematical Framework of Schedule Risk Management for Power Grid Engineering Projects’ Sustainable Development

  • Rao Rao,
  • Xingping Zhang,
  • Zhiping Shi,
  • Kaiyan Luo and ,
  • Zhongfu Tan and
  • Yifan Feng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 October 2014

Schedule risks are the main threat for high efficiency of schedule management in power grid engineering projects (PGEP). This paper aims to build a systematical framework for schedule risk management, which consists of three dimensions, including the...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
213 Views
42 Pages

21 October 2026

Reliable cost estimation during the preconstruction phase remains challenging because decisions must be made with limited project information, substantial uncertainty, and project-specific cost drivers. This study proposes and empirically evaluates a...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
760 Views
24 Pages

31 May 2026

This study examines how power transmission infrastructure expansion reshapes manufacturing agglomeration and regional industrial systems. Taking China’s ultra-high-voltage (UHV) transmission projects as a quasi-natural experiment, we investigat...

(This article belongs to the Section Manufacturing Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,572 Views
21 Pages

1 July 2025

Energy resources are abundant in high-altitude regions, and the construction of power transmission and transformation projects has important value. However, harsh natural environments can increase project costs. To address the issue of insufficient a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evaluation, Decision-Making and Market Simulation of a New Type of Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
428 Views
27 Pages

26 July 2026

Reasonable carbon allowance allocation for power transmission and transformation projects is critical for regional emission reduction, yet existing methods rarely address spatial heterogeneity or the fairness-efficiency trade-off at the city level. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Managing Sustainable Energy Systems: Challenges, Models and Opportunities for the Long-Term Energy Transition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
126 Views
16 Pages

Construction-Phase Carbon Emission Accounting and Boundary Optimization for Power Transmission and Transformation Projects: A Case Study in Shanxi, China

  • Guoxuan Wang,
  • Runpeng Tan,
  • Yan Zhou,
  • Dongfeng Han and ,
  • Chengwen Jin and
  • Kaiyun Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 October 2026

Carbon emission accounting for power transmission and transformation projects is increasingly needed to support low-carbon grid infrastructure, but existing studies often pay limited attention to the construction phase and rely on generalized emissio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Sustainable Energy Systems: Integrated Planning, Optimization, Socio-Economic Impact and Environmental Assessment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,095 Views
22 Pages

The sustainable development of power construction projects (PCPs) is of great significance in solving the issue of high carbon emissions in the power industry. However, the profit-seeking nature of stakeholders’ strategic choices and other conf...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,157 Views
22 Pages

16 November 2023

The actual situation of carbon-emission reduction in China’s power sector has not yet achieved the expected benefits. The rent-seeking behavior of participants in power construction projects (PCPs) hinders the realization of low-carbon benefits...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
351 Views
35 Pages

Multi-Objective Optimization of Resource-Constrained Construction Scheduling for Power Transmission and Distribution Projects Considering Prefabricated Components

  • Yang Bai,
  • Xiangyong An,
  • Haibo Zhao,
  • Xiao Fan and ,
  • Xiying Fan,
  • Tingjun Li,
  • Zhuowen Zuo and
  • Xiaoqing Han
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

10 September 2026

Research on low-carbon construction in power transmission and distribution (PTD) projects has mainly focused on carbon accounting and emission-reduction assessment, with limited consideration of construction method differences and shared resource con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,712 Views
19 Pages

18 January 2018

The electric power industry is of great significance in promoting social and economic development and improving people’s living standards. Power grid construction is a necessary part of infrastructure construction, whose sustainability plays an impor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,939 Views
20 Pages

30 March 2024

This study proposes an approach for simultaneously treating fuzziness and randomness when conducting safety risk assessments of nuclear power plant building projects (NPPBPs). First, the interval type-2 fuzzy set (IT2FS) and analytic network process...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,928 Views
20 Pages

15 December 2023

Power construction projects (PCPs) consume a large amount of energy and contribute significantly to carbon emissions. There is relatively little research on carbon emission reduction in PCPs, especially in predicting carbon emission reduction from a...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,383 Views
20 Pages

Assessing the Environmental Impact Caused by Power Grid Projects in High Altitude Areas Based on BWM and Vague Sets Techniques

  • Yuanxin Liu,
  • FengYun Li,
  • Yi Wang,
  • Xinhua Yu and ,
  • Jiahai Yuan and
  • Yuwei Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 May 2018

This study constructed a hybrid model for assessing the environmental impact caused by power grid projects (PGP) in high altitude area (HAA). Firstly, this study analyzed the characteristics of the environment in HAA and the possible environmental im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,667 Views
18 Pages

20 October 2021

Design change is a common but significant problem in construction projects. Issues of delay, cost overruns, claims, and disputes in projects occur as a result. However, design change studies in the power-project area are less often discussed. As a re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Construction Project Management 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,201 Views
15 Pages

7 December 2018

With the rapid development of the global economy, the interconnection of power grids has become an objective law and a trend of the power industry development. The implementation of power grid interconnection projects, especially transnational power...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,180 Views
17 Pages

13 April 2023

Wind power projects are a crucial step towards achieving the objectives of “carbon neutrality” and “carbon peak” because they can improve the energy crisis and contribute towards environmental pollution reduction. However, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Carbon Neutrality: National Strategic Action Programmes and Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,101 Views
19 Pages

16 January 2016

The Qinghai–Tibet power grid interconnection project is the first power transmission project with the highest altitude, longest transmission lines, longest distance running across the plateau frozen ground, and highest iron tower in the world. The ri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,953 Views
15 Pages

11 May 2024

In light of electrical energy’s increasing role in economic systems worldwide, prioritizing investments in sustainable power supplies has become paramount. This study proposes a model based on cloud theory and game theory to evaluate sustainabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,612 Views
24 Pages

Impact Analysis of BIM on Power Substation Project Costs: Techno-Economic Data Evidence from China

  • Ding Liu,
  • Lizhong Qi,
  • Yi Sun,
  • Jingguo Rong and ,
  • Su Zhang and
  • Guangze Yu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Due to the difficulty in measuring intangible effects and the reliance on experts for benefit evaluation, actual project data evidence of the impact of BIM is insufficient. To this end, this study collected total project cost data from 164 power subs...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Building Information Modelling (BIM) Applications in Construction Management: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,265 Views
23 Pages

6 April 2024

This study is focused on the problem of contractor selection for the implementation of a solar power plant project to produce electricity from sustainable sources for the needs of the company Voćar. The goal of this research is to select a const...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments on Fuzzy Sets Extensions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,413 Views
27 Pages

Environmental Stress Testing for China’s Overseas Coal Power Investment Project

  • Minpeng Xiong,
  • Xiaowen Yang,
  • Sisi Chen,
  • Fulian Shi and
  • Jiahai Yuan

4 October 2019

The advance of the Chinese “Belt and Road” initiative encourages increased overseas investment in coal power projects. However, it also brings about external environmental risks. In this paper, we use the approach of environmental stress...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
486 Views
25 Pages

24 August 2026

Active-power ceilings create a control challenge in droop-controlled grid-forming converter networks because the electrical response is faster than the measurements and outer control. Projected and projection-free power limiting use filtered active p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,917 Views
14 Pages

This paper aims to understand the social-psychological dimension of the Normative Power Europe discourse using ingroup projection as a discursive/cognitive practice of othering. It takes issue with most poststructuralist studies that conduct analyses...

(This article belongs to the Section Contemporary Politics and Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
11,067 Views
30 Pages

11 March 2015

In order to achieve the sustainable development of energy, Ultra High Voltage (UHV) power transmission construction projects are being established in China currently. Their high-tech nature, the massive amount of money involved, and the need for mult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,563 Views
18 Pages

13 August 2016

Reasonable distribution network planning is an essential prerequisite of the economics and security of the future power grid. The comprehensive benefit evaluation of a distribution network planning project can make significant contributions towards g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,730 Views
16 Pages

Delay Causes and Types in Nigerian Power Construction Projects

  • Usman Ismaila,
  • Wooyong Jung and
  • Chan Young Park

23 January 2022

Numerous events cause delays to entire power projects’ completion timelines, leading to loss. This paper focuses on revealing the critical delay causes in Nigerian power projects and identifying the delay types such as excusable delay, compensa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Construction Project Management 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,597 Views
25 Pages

A Novel Integrated Electronic Lighting Driver Circuit for Supplying an LED Projection Lamp with High Power Factor and Soft Switching Characteristics

  • Chun-An Cheng,
  • Ching-Min Lee,
  • En-Chih Chang,
  • Sheng-Hong Hou and ,
  • Long-Fu Lan and
  • Cheng-Kuan Lin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 November 2023

The traditional light source of projection lamps adopts a halogen lamp, which has the advantages of high brightness, but its luminous efficiency is not good and consumes energy. A light-emitting diode (LED) has the characteristics of high luminous ef...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Technologies in Power Converters, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
398 Views
37 Pages

30 August 2026

High renewable-energy penetration introduces rapid source-load variations and operating uncertainties into islanded microgrids, challenging conventional droop control in terms of dynamic frequency/voltage regulation and proportional power sharing. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Optimal Operation of Modern Power Systems for Flexibility Enhancement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
199 Views
13 Pages

The State Monitoring of Energy Storage Power Stations Based on the Dynamic Local Preserving Projection–Local Outlier Factor Method

  • Wei Huang,
  • Lifeng Chen,
  • Zihua Liu,
  • Jiahui Li and ,
  • Liwen Zheng and
  • Bing Song
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 September 2026

Monitoring the operating status of energy storage power stations can detect battery faults in enough time to prevent them from evolving into serious accidents capable of causing economic losses or even casualties. In this paper, a novel data-driven o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Process Systems Engineering for Complex Industrial Systems)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,506 Views
6 Pages

Future Projections of Photovoltaic Power Generation Potential Change in Greece Based on High-Resolution EURO-CORDEX RCM Simulations

  • Aristeidis K. Georgoulias,
  • Dimitris Akritidis,
  • Alkiviadis Kalisoras,
  • Dimitris Melas and
  • Prodromos Zanis

Here, we assess the projected changes in photovoltaic power generation potential (PVpot) in Greece for the 21st century. Our analysis is based on an ensemble of high-resolution Regional Climate Model (RCM) simulations from the EURO-CORDEX initiative...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 17th International Conference on Meteorology, Climatology, and Atmospheric Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,367 Views
13 Pages

15 August 2018

Under two different power structures, where the supplier and the distributor, respectively, are modeled as the leader, this paper studies water pricing strategies in two competing water resources supply chains. We assume that each water supply chain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Conflict Analysis and Sustainable Management of Water Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,595 Views
28 Pages

Accounting for the Life Cycle Cost of Power Grid Projects by Employing a System Dynamics Technique: A Power Reform Perspective

  • Yongli Wang,
  • Shanshan Song,
  • Mingchen Gao,
  • Jingyan Wang and ,
  • Jinrong Zhu and
  • Zhongfu Tan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 April 2020

In the context of China’s electric power reform, issued in May 2019, the “Transmission and Distribution Pricing Supervision Measures” have changed asset accounting in grid enterprises and therefore affected cost accounting in grid p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,693 Views
16 Pages

22 December 2021

The purpose of the article is to define the risk factors in cogeneration projects and to demonstrate that a lack of sufficient identification of risks in different phases affects project implementation. A theoretical study is conducted, which aims to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Managing Energy Sector Enterprises: Challenges, Methods and Research Trends)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,115 Views
36 Pages

7 February 2026

The Korean government has established a goal of ‘carbon neutrality by 2050’ to prepare for an era of energy and carbon transition. As one of the measures to achieve the goal, the Korean government is also focusing on expanding offshore wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,961 Views
17 Pages

A Study on the Impact of Various Meteorological Data on the Design Performance of Rooftop Solar Power Projects in Vietnam: A Case Study of Electric Power University

  • Manh-Hai Pham,
  • Vu Minh Phap,
  • Nguyen Ngoc Trung,
  • Tran Thanh Son and ,
  • Duong Trung Kien and
  • Vu Thi Anh Tho
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 September 2022

People are increasingly using clean energy sources, contributing to environmental protection according to the general trend of the world. In the form of renewable energy, solar energy has contributed to solving current pressing problems, such as envi...

(This article belongs to the Section A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,362 Views
25 Pages

Dynamic Cost Management Throughout the Entire Process of Power Transmission and Transformation Projects Based on System Dynamics

  • Xiaomei Zhang,
  • Wenqin Ning,
  • Xue Wei,
  • Zinan Cao and ,
  • Yaning Huang and
  • Jian Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 January 2026

With the advancement of the “dual carbon” goals, power transmission and transformation projects face complex challenges arising from the construction of new power systems. Traditional cost management models struggle to meet dynamic manage...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Future of Energy Management and Economics: Innovation, Technology, Sustainability, and New Business Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,120 Views
20 Pages

26 January 2024

To investigate the economic impact of carbon reduction technology on power transmission and transformation projects, carbon reduction technologies adapted to power transmission and transformation projects were investigated, and the evaluation indicat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Twin Technology in Energy and Environmental Sector)
  • Article
  • Open Access
121 Citations
8,746 Views
11 Pages

Cost of Equity of Coal-Fired Power Generation Projects in Poland: Its Importance for the Management of Decision-Making Process

  • Piotr W. Saługa,
  • Katarzyna Szczepańska-Woszczyna,
  • Radosław Miśkiewicz and
  • Mateusz Chłąd

16 September 2020

Our knowledge of discount rates plays an important role both in the discounted cash flow decision-making process and in the later phases of a project’s lifetime. It is useful than both for management and cash-flow monitoring purposes at operati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financial Development and Energy Consumption Nexus)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,008 Views
23 Pages

Climate-compatible development (CCD) is being operationalised across the developing world through projects that integrate development, adaptation and mitigation using community-based approaches—community-based CCD (CB-CCD). By incorporating and consi...

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