Hera is the fourth largest national operator - and number two amongst local utilities - in the natural gas sales and distribution sector. With a gas network extending over more than 13,300 km, it serves the Bologna, Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena, Ferrara and Modena districts, and thanks to its shareholding in Marche Multiservizi, it also serves the Pesaro Urbino districts.

HERA operates in the natural gas sales and distribution sector with excellent expertise and strong positioning on the regional market in 84 municipalities of the Provinces of Bologna, Ferrara, Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena, Florence and Modena. It also sells and distributes LPG through networks small to medium in size, in areas found within municipalities of the Provinces of Bologna, Forlì-Cesena and Florence.

HERA meets the energy needs of civil and tertiary users in the Provinces of Bologna (municipalities of Bologna, Casalecchio di Reno, Monterenzio, Imola), Forlì-Cesena (municipalities of Forlì and Cesena), Ravenna (municipality of Castel Bolognese), and Rimini (municipality of Santarcangelo di Romagna) through its district heating service.
Availing itself of the expertise it has acquired in managing power plants, HERA has offered heat/energy management services to third-party thermal plants (public and private parties) in the Provinces of Bologna, Forlì-Cesena, Ravenna and Rimini.

It deals with the management of public lighting in 61 municipalities of the Provinces of Bologna, Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena, Rimini and Pesaro-Urbino. It also manages the traffic light installations in 28 municipalities of the Provinces of Bologna, Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena and Rimini. In some cases, it ensures the supply of the electricity necessary for the installations for both services.

The HERA Group distributes electricity to the users connected to the distribution network serving the municipalities of Imola and Mordano (Province of Bologna), Sant'Agata sul Santerno, Massalombarda and Bagnara di Romagna (Province of Ravenna), and the municipality of Modena and 18 municipalities of the Province of Modena.
The group also operates in electricity sales to customers in its territory of reference and, thanks to liberalization, throughout the north-eastern Italy market.

Although it is not historically defined as a producer of electricity, the Group has for some time implemented activities aimed at producing energy from renewable or assimilated sources through energy recovery linked to the development of plants associated with its own production processes such as cogeneration (district heating service), waste-to-energy and recovery of biogases from landfills (environmental hygiene service), recovery of biogases from municipal waste water purification plants (integrated water cycle), natural gas turboexpansion (natural gas distribution service), and significant shareholdings in plants started up in Campania totalling 1,200 MW of installed power.

Its stake in Tirreno Power allows it to have power totalling approximately 56 MW available for sale.

Hera also has more than 9% interest in GALSI, the company handling the project to import Algerian gas to Italy with the construction of a new Algeria-Italy gas pipeline.

Page updated 23 March 2012