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The gap between built and working. Stories from the invisible phase between construction "done" and the lights actually coming on.

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You can't out-hire the gap

A delivery director on a one gigawatt project gets the slip notice on Tuesday. She calls every specialist firm she knows on Wednesday. All of them are booked through 2027. Thursday morning, she sits down with her own team. The team that exists is the t...

6 min
APR 30

Three years to wait. Or sidestep entirely.

Britain's grid has seven hundred gigawatts of generation waiting to connect. Roughly twice what the country actually consumes. Most of those applications will never be built. The hyperscalers know this. Their answer is to stop waiting. In this second e...

5 min
APR 23

The Gap

A facility is built. The steel is up. The concrete is cured. The commissioning certificate is signed. Eighteen months later, the control room is still dark. This happens everywhere. Nuclear plants in France. LNG terminals in Qatar. Data centres in Virg...

5 min

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The gap between built and working. Stories from the invisible phase between construction "done" and the lights actually coming on.

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David Ayeni
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3
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Clean
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