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Both energy companies and consumers have embraced the concept of green electricity where electricity produced by renewable energy sources is separately marketed and priced from conventional electricity based on fossil or nuclear sources. The success of green electricity led the company to develop an innovative facility for biomass combustion. The supplier network it built secured first-mover advantages in contracting biomass resources. The company's ability to build a network in which skills, know-how and experience regarding the logistics of the biomass resource were accumulated, and its relative power within policy networks, were crucial for the power plant to succeed. The company's ability to build a network in which skills, know-how and experience regarding the logistics of the biomass resource were accumulated, and its relative power within policy networks, were crucial for the power plant to succeed. In April 1998 construction of the 24 MWe biomass power plant commenced, with a consortium led by Siemens, the successful tenderer; the plant commenced operation.

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