Ben Hopkinson

specialise and gain skills in procurement/contract management. OTOH suppliers will have institutional knowledge of the contracts and will be able to slip price rises past civil servants who are rotating in and out of the project.

I'm a big fan of Alon's work and I agree with that post. The challenges that civil servants face in managing large procurement needed for metro projects is important. To advance their careers, civil servants in the UK move every few years between jobs/departments, which means that they don't...

The cost of burying our grid Why the debate about undergrounding transmission lines is a distraction

Delivering clean power by 2030 and saving £9.1bn in constraint payments paid to generators to switch off when the grid is full, requires building 2x the long-distance grid upgrades by 2030 as we have in the past decade.

Here's why we can't just bury them: benhopkinson.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...