Various factors could contribute to construction-cost overruns, construction halts or delays or failure to commence commercial operations, including, but not limited to: • delays in obtaining, or the inability to obtain, necessary permits and licenses; • delays and increased costs related to the interconnection of new projects to the transmission system; • the inability to acquire or maintain land use and access rights; • the failure to receive contracted third-party services; • interruptions to dispatch at the projects; • supply interruptions, including as a result of changes in international trade laws, regulations, agreements, treaties or policies of the U.S. or other countries in which NEP's suppliers are located; • work stoppages; • labor disputes; • weather interferences; • unforeseen engineering, environmental and geological problems, including, but not limited to, discoveries of contamination, protected plant or animal species or habitat, archaeological or cultural resources or other environment-related factors; • unanticipated cost overruns in excess of budgeted contingencies; and • failure of contracting parties to perform under contracts.