In 2002, the capacity of the environment Corporation (EPC), a small company that develops projects on renewable energy, trying to commercialize its "reactor", a tool that extracted methane from manure, reduced environmental impacts of manure, and the generated electricity. The company turned two promising converging markets: agricultural waste management market and the market for renewable energy. One of the main objectives was to collect financial schemes that satisfy the conflicting interests of the four groups of stakeholders: farmers, who do not have enough funds, investors who do not trust the business of electricity trading scandal after Enron, utilities have resisted long-term commitments to purchase electricity, and the government that were to revise its agricultural and energy policies. The main objective is to provide a process that reduces pollution and animal waste at the same time a positive renewable energy.
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by Ray A. Goldberg, Laure Mougeot Stroock Source: Harvard Business School 28 pages. Publication Date: September 19, 2002. Prod. #: 903403-PDF-ENG