by Değer Boden“Power Plant EPC and O&M Contracts During Coronavirus Outbreak”, Mondaq, April 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak affects not only people’s daily-life, but also disrupts economies and markets all around the world and electricity generation market is not immune to this effect. Due to the outbreak, construction projects related to power plants came to a standstill in some jurisdictions. Engineering, procurement and construction (“EPC“) contractors and operation and maintenance (“O&M“) service providers as well as project owners started to face difficulties.
by Sinem Mermer“Coronavirus: Supply Chains Are Broken, Now What? – A Legal Evaluation of Force Majeure Concept During an Epidemic” published on Mondaq, March 2020
“This is not a drill.
This is not the time to give up.
This is not the time for excuses.
This is a time for pulling out all the stops.”
World Health Organization Director-General’s remarks regarding coronavirus at the media briefing on 5 March 2020
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