definiens: is defined as causes beyond the control of the Party, including, without limitation, acts of God ; Laws of any government ; war;civil commotion ; destruction of production facilities or materials by fire, flood, earthquake, explosion or storm ; labor disturbances;epidemic ; and failure of public utilities or common carriers . In the event of force majeure, BCGT or [COMPANY], as the case may be, willimmediately notify the respective other Party of such inability and of the period for which such inability is expected to continue . TheParty giving such notice will thereupon be excused from such of its obligations under this Agreement as it is thereby disabled fromperforming for so long as such Party is so disabled, up to a maximum of one hundred twenty(120 ) days, after which time the Party notaffected by the force majeure may terminate this Agreement . To the extent possible, each Party will use reasonable efforts to minimizethe duration of any force majeure