Reading Energy builds facilities that produce energy from non-conventional fuels. Private business organization, she spent six years developing the plan to build waste-to-energy plant in Robbins, Illinois. The plant will burn solid waste, the production of electricity for sale to the local utility. Its economy is driven by the cost of alternative waste disposal technologies (mostly landfills) and Social Policy regulatory act of 1978, which provides a market for the power. Reading the project was delayed by the political opposition, both at the local and state levels. Robbins is a poor community, and some of the readings were antagonists cause environmental justice as a reason to oppose the project. Tom Cassel, an engineer who founded the reading, negotiating contracts for waste from neighboring municipalities. It must take into account the price, risk-sharing, and other economic factors, in addition to political and social issues in the development of the strategy and tactics of the firm. "Hide
by Forest Reinhardt, Peggy Duxbury Source: Harvard Business School 30 pages. Publication Date: Mar 07, 1994. Prod. #: 794102-PDF-ENG
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