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19/06/2024

Online since 15-05-2024 at 10:38

Hera Group acquires Soelia’s gas network

Through its subsidiary Inrete Distribuzione Energia, the Group was awarded the tender for the gas distribution plants and network serving the municipality of Argenta in Ferrara area

Hera Group BoD approves results for 1Q 2024

The consolidated quarterly report at 31 March shows improvement in the main operating and financial indicators. The Group’s financial solidity and commitment to sustainability and the ecological transition were confirmed, along with the creation of value for all stakeholders and significant investments in the areas served to improve our assets resilience and to guarantee service quality and continuity

Online since 14-05-2024 at 12:41

30/04/2024

Online since 29-04-2024 at 12:53

Hera Shareholders Meeting: 2023 financial statements approved and dividend increased to 14 cents

The Group continues along its path of uninterrupted growth, closing 2023 with record performance in the main operating and financial indicators, thus constantly creating value for its stakeholders.

23/04/2024

Hera Group at the top of ARERA’s water service quality ranking

The multiutility confirms itself among Italy’s most outstanding operators, securing the first and third positions, with reference to all macro-indicators, as proof of the very high standards adopted by the Group in this field. A commitment that the Hera fulfils with significant investments to ensure the highest quality and continuity of service to around 3.6 million citizens and an increasingly efficient and circular use of resources. Important results have been achieved, particularly in Emilia-Romagna.

08/04/2024

Publication of the Draft Separate and Consolidated Financial Statements as of 31.12.2023, the Sustainability Report - Consolidated Non-Financial Statement, the Corporate Governance Report, and the Report on Remuneration and Compensation Paid

29/03/2024

Thanks to investments totalling approximately 50 million euro, the Hera Group will build a state-of-the-art facility within its own plant complex. Starting from plastic waste that has so far been difficult to recycle, it will produce high quality polymers with characteristics similar to those shown by virgin materials, thus making sectors such as consumer electronics and the automotive industry increasingly sustainable

Rigid plastics recycling: one of Europe’s most innovative plants to be built in Modena

27/03/2024

The year closed with main financial indicators rising and the targets included in the strategic Plan to 2026 exceeded three years ahead of schedule. The Group’s financial solidity and flexibility allowed it to continue along its path of industrial growth, increasing its investments and successfully grasping market opportunities, both internal and external, while continuing to generate value benefitting all stakeholders. The proposed dividend was raised, reaching 14 eurocents per share

Publication of documents pertaining to the Shareholders Meeting to be held on 30 April 2024

Hera Group approves results as at 31/12/2023

Online since 26-03-2024 at 12:47

11/03/2024

Sustainability, decarbonisation, liveability and biodiversity protection are the keywords of this project, which will be developed in the northern part of the city and will contain a new urban park with facilities, complemented by areas dedicated to protecting animal and plant species, and an agrivoltaic field that will allow an annual saving of 6,000 tons of CO2.

Green energy and a new urban forest: the Hera Group’s Energy Park arrives in Bologna

04/03/2024

The passing of Hera S.p.A.'s Vice Chairman, Mr. Gabriele Giacobazzi

We hereby inform you that on March 3, 2024, the Vice Chaiman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Gabriele Giacobazzi, passed away.

13/02/2024

The Group achieved the leadership band in the CDP questionnaire and was included among “TOP 1%” Multi and Water Utilities of the S&P Global’s Sustainability Yearbook 2024. These recognitions prove Hera’s commitment to sustainable development and creating shared value for local areas.

Hera Group among Europe’s leaders in sustainability and the fight against climate change

06/02/2024

With the 7 lots awarded in the tender for the Gradual Protection Service for non-vulnerable household customers, the Hera Group consolidates its position as the sector’s third largest operator in Italy.

Hera Group: over 1 million new electricity customers as of 1 July

Hera Group expands in the industrial waste sector with TRS Ecology

With the acquisition of 70% of the Piacenza-based company, the Group reinforces its leadership in the waste management sector. This transaction, at full capacity, is expected to contribute to growth in the Hera Group’s Ebitda with approximately 6 million euro.

Hera Group presents Business Plan to 2027

Development, resilience and creating shared value for stakeholders are at the heart of the Group’s new strategic document, which foresees investments totalling 4.4 billion to speed up the ecological transition and enhance asset resilience to climate change. The preliminary results for 2023 outperform the previous Plan’s goals that have been achieved three years ahead of schedule, thanks to the numerous development actions implemented and the Group’s ability to grasp market opportunities.

Online since 24-01-2024 at 12:02

22/01/2024

Online since 22-01-2024 at 13:24

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18/01/2024

The company reaffirms, once again in 2024, its position among the best performers in human resources management, thanks to substantial investments in welfare, training, and skill development.

Hera Top Employer for the 15th Consecutive Year

02/01/2024

A further confirmation of the importance of Hera’s achievements in terms of gender equality and inclusion

Hera Group has obtained the “Gender equality certification”

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16/01/2018

Clean energy for Bio-on's new biopolymers "factory" thanks to a trigeneration plant built by Gruppo Hera

Bio-on, the leader in eco-sustainable chemical technologies, and Gruppo Hera, one of Italy's main multi-utility providers, have reached an agreement for the supply of clean energy thanks to the realisation and management of a new technological-energy hub that will house a newly designed trigeneration plant. The deal was signed by Bio-on S.p.A. with Hera Servizi Energia, a subsidiary of Gruppo HERA, and will guarantee clean electric energy for the new plant producing innovative biopolymersthat Bio-on is currently constructing in Castel San Pietro Terme, outside Bologna.

The plant, due to open by the middle of 2018 and begin PHAs bioplastic production thanks to a 15 million Euro investment, will employ approximately 40 people.The plant will occupy an area of 30,000 m², 3,700 of which is covered and 6,000 land for development, and will have a production capacity of 1,000 tons per year expandable to 2,000. It will be equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and the most advanced research laboratories, where Bio-on will test and develop new types of PHAs bioplastic using agricultural and agro-industrial waste as raw material. Bio-on also demonstrates its focus on environmental sustainability in its choice of site, opting to convert a former factory, meaning no new land is wasted.

Through the agreement, Gruppo Hera will supply Bio-on's new plant with a) Power produced and self-consumed, b) Heating in the form of steam, and c) Cooling. The multiannual agreement includes the realisation and maintenance of the entire technological-energy hub associated with the supply of energy, for a total investment from Hera Servizi Energia of 2.4 million Euro.

Hera Servizi Energia is the landmark ESCO in Gruppo Hera's industrial sector, which over the years has developed a portfolio of cogeneration plants built with the best technologies on the market, able to guarantee major energy and economic savings.

The project developed for Bio-on envisages the realisation of the entire technological-energy hub comprising a 1 MW trigeneration power plant, two steam boilers, two high-efficiency industrial coolers and a modern water treatment plant. The energy saving generated is over 800 TOE (tonnes of oil equivalent) per year, equivalent to the amount of CO2 a 320-hectare woodland absorbs in one year or the equivalent of 810 diesel cars being taken off the roads.

"We are extremely proud of this agreement," explains Bio-on S.p.A. Chairman and CEO Marco Astorri, "because it allows us to increase and complete the industrial sustainability of our new production plant. We chose to not use agricultural land by converting a derelict plant, and with HERA we can add strong GREEN credentials in our energy usage to produce a biopolymer like MINERV PHAs that is sustainable and completely biodegradable in nature." Bio-on, a fast-growing company, fundamentally met the objectives of its business plan presented on 22 November 2016 for 2017 and looks to 2018 with major new projects, including its sustainable energy collaboration with HERA.

All the PHAs (polyhydroxyalkanoates) developed by Bio-on are made from renewable plant sources with no competition with food supply chains. They can replace a number of conventional polymers currently made with petrochemical processes using hydrocarbons; they guarantee the same thermo-mechanical properties as conventional plastics with the advantage of being completely eco-sustainable and 100% naturally biodegradable.

The agreement between the two companies has come out of a highly dynamic territory that represents the technological cutting edge in Italy.

"For a company such as ours, which has innovation and sustainability at its foundations,"explained Giorgio Golinelli, managing director of Hera Servizi Energia, "the collaboration with Bio-on is a natural meeting of the minds and a convergence of views that we believe can be developed with an increasing number of players operating in sustainably developing the economy and the territory. With this agreement, thanks to the breadth and quality of our service offering, we can put an additional green stamp on a project that aims to change the world of eco-plastics. Hera has been at the forefront of this sector for some time, encouraging the transition towards a circular economy model that extends the life of raw materials and resources through recycling, reuse and longer-lasting products."

Gruppo Hera

It is one of Italy's largest multi-utility providers working in Environment (waste collection and treatment), Energy (electricity and gas distribution and sale) and Water (waterworks, sewers and purification). The Group employs over 9,000 people and works every day to meet the many and varied needs of over 4.4 million citizens. It serves over 350 local municipalities mainly in the Emilia Romagna, Marche, Tuscany, Abruzzo, Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia regions.

Bio-on S.p.A.

Bio-On S.p.A., an Italian Intellectual Property Company (IPC), operates in the bioplastic sector conducting applied research and development of modern bio-fermentation technologies in the field of eco-sustainable and completely naturally biodegradable materials. In particular, Bio-On develops industrial applications through the creation of product characterisations, components and plastic items. Since February 2015, Bio-On S.p.A. has also been operating in the development of natural and sustainable chemicals for the future. Bio-On has developed an exclusive process for the production of a family of polymers called PHAs (polyhydroxyalkanoates) from agricultural waste (including molasses and sugar cane and sugar beet syrups). The bioplastic produced in this way is able to replace the main families of conventional plastics in terms of performance, thermo-mechanical properties and versatility. Bio-On PHAs is a bioplastic that can be classified as 100% natural and completely biodegradable: this has been certified by Vincotte and by USDA (United States Department of Agriculture). the Issuer's strategy envisages the marketing of licenses for PHAs production and related ancillary services, the development of R&D (also through new collaborations with universities, research centres and industrial partners), as well as the realisation of industrial plants designed by Bio-On.

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17/01/2023

2023-01-17 Early 2023 sees Hera confirmed among the best companies in human resource management, thanks in particular to substantial investments in welfare, training and skills development. “It is in challenging times that excellence comes to the fore”, comments David Plink, CEO of the Top Employers Institute, while granting the Top Employers 2023 certification, one of the main international awards for companies that meet high standards in human resource management. This reflection sums up the complex events seen over the last two years, which have caused considerable instability for many companies. This is not the case for the Hera Group, which has been certified as a Top Employer for the 14th consecutive time, standing out for its job policies and ranking among the top 3 in Italy out of 1,600 companies analysed. The well-being of people, training, professional growth and transformation of skills are the main strengths that have allowed Hera to receive this prestigious award. It was conferred by the Institute based in Holland, a global body certifying corporate excellence in the HR field, after a close analysis that becomes increasingly selective every year and concerns specific parameters such as adequate salaries, working conditions, career opportunities, corporate culture, training and people development. With its pioneering vision, concrete decisions and increasing investments in human resources and training, Hera continues to take on the challenges of change, aiming at developing new skills and competencies. In this sense, a central role is played by HerAcademy, the corporate University founded precisely with the desire to generate new knowledge in response to the trends seen in the context, including an ongoing debate on current issues and collaborations with major national and international institutions. All training activities for Hera’s over 9,000 employees fall within this scope, so that continuous learning and people development are at the heart of the strategy, in line with the growing demand for profiles capable of overcoming the challenges of the transitions currently underway (digital, energy and environmental). In 2022 alone, 97% of the corporate population, including the most operational ones, attended training courses, totalling approximately 270 thousand hours, or roughly 30 hours of training per capita, well above the sector average. In line with this same vision, and above all as a response to the challenge of the energy transition, the Hera Group has also launched a major talent acquisition campaign throughout Italy in recent months. The goal is to select and train, in collaboration with ManpowerGroup, 300 new resources with technical and operational profiles and include them, within 2023, in the Group’s various companies and in supplier companies. Training and valorising people is all the more effective when it is accompanied by the well-being and professional satisfaction of workers. The Hera Group is well aware of this and, even when faced by the complex events we are currently experiencing, it continues to insist on safety, productivity and quality of work, as is demonstrated by the recent renewal of the supplementary corporate contract for 2022-2024. In addition to significant investments in the welfare plan, to make the working and family spheres more compatible, the new contract provides, for example, for the introduction of measures in favour of pregnant workers, parents with children up to 6 years of age and those assisting elderly parents, without forgetting Hera’s initiatives in favour of gender policies. “This year as well, being recognized by the Top Employers Institute as one of the best companies for our personnel policies fills us with pride”, comments the Executive Chairman of the Hera Group, Tomaso Tommasi di Vignano. “Reaching this goal encourages us to do even better, ever more convinced that enhancing the people of the Group and continuing to invest in their professional growth, making them an integral part of the transformations of our time, also guarantees corporate solidity, quality in the services we provide and positive repercussions for the local areas served.” PR Hera Top Employer for the 14th time.pdf 10:51:00 Nuova_Palazzina_110x150.1533218221.jpg See the press release Nuova_Palazzina_110x150.1533218221.jpg

Hera a Top Employer for the 14th consecutive year

Online dal 17/01/2023 alle ore 10:51

Hera Group and Ascopiave have signed contracts for the acquisition of 92% of Asco TLC

2022-12-29 Following the press release issued on 29th November 2022, the Hera Group and the Ascopiave Group herein announce that today they have signed the contract deliverables governing the acquisition of 92% of Asco TLC from Asco Holding and the Treviso-Belluno C.C.I.A.A. (Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture). The transfer of the Asco TLC shares will take place upon the closing of the transaction, which is scheduled in the first quarter of 2023. This partnership represents a strategic step in the evolution of Ascopiave and the Hera Group's business portfolio in the IT-TLC sector, consistent with the industrial plans of the two groups. For additional information on the details of the transaction, please refer to the press release dated 29th November 2022. The commitment represents an operation with related parties for Ascopiave in virtue of the fact that although Asco Holding controls Ascopiave, it does not exercise any management and coordination activity over the latter. The agreement can be construed as a deal of minor significance, pursuant to the Consob Regulation on Related Party Transactions (hereinafter referred to as the “Regulation”), as well as the procedure therein adopted by Ascopiave. It has received a favourable, non-binding clearance from the Ascopiave Committee for Related Party Transactions. It is hereby stated that, as the above-mentioned arrangement qualifies as one of minor importance, no information document will be published pursuant to Article 5 of the Regulation. 20221229 Ascopiave Gruppo Hera sottoscrizione ASCO TLC.pdf 15:32:00 Nuova_Palazzina_110x150.1533218221.jpg See the press release Nuova_Palazzina_110x150.1533218221.jpg

Online dal 29/12/2022 alle ore 15:32

19/12/2022

2022-12-19 The Group is among the top positions in the international ranking of Utility Networks assessed by S&P Global for its focus on sustainability and its ability to create shared value by contributing to the energy transition Following its recent confirmation, for the third consecutive year, within the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, World and Europe, the Hera Group once again ranks among the companies that pay the most attention to sustainability and ESG aspects internationally. Hera’s latest ESG Evaluation, carried out by the Sustainable Finance analysts of S&P Global Ratings, has indeed also been recently published. This is a cross-industry assessment of the Group’s ability to effectively manage, in the medium and long term, its exposure to environmental, social and governance risks, as well as to grasp opportunities arising from the changes required by a constantly evolving international context. This year, the Hera Group, among the first in Italy to have published its own ESG Evaluation as early as 2021, obtained an overall score of 81/100, making it one of the best companies internationally as assessed by S&P Global Ratings. The score obtained (81) sets it well above the international (72) and European (76) average. This comes as further important recognition for the attention that the Hera Group dedicates to ESG aspects in pursuing a strategy of sustainable, long-term growth, which has characterised it since it was established in 2002, and which complements and goes hand in hand with its financial solidity. In particular, in the ESG Evaluation just published, the Hera Group is assessed by S&P Global Ratings as being strongly prepared to implement its strategy of creating shared value, contributing to the transition towards a circular and low-emission economy. Hera has, in fact, shown itself ready to face the potential risks arising from the energy crisis, thanks to its ability to balance the need for transition with the security and availability of energy sources. The most distinctive factors to be positively evaluated include: a robust governance, characterised by a high level of independence and transparency; resilience to external shocks thanks to a multi-business model that maintains sustainability principles as an integral part of its growth and development strategy; its ability to collaborate with various stakeholders, including municipalities, local communities and universities; its ability to capitalise on circular economy principles by investing in technology and innovation to reduce its environmental footprint, including through recycling plastics and energy production from waste, with results superior to other operators; transparent annual reporting on its greenhouse gas emissions in relation to its 2030 reduction targets; the constant alignment of its financing strategy and remuneration structure with its goals in shared value creation, which has helped to strengthen the involvement of the corporate population; the level of diversity confirmed by a high percentage of women in management positions and the inclusive approach towards local communities. 20221219_Hera TOP in S&P Global Ratings ESG evaluations.pdf 10:31:00 Nuova_Palazzina_110x150.1533218221.jpg See the press release Nuova_Palazzina_110x150.1533218221.jpg

Hera among the best utilities in S&P Global Ratings ESG evaluations

Online dal 19/12/2022 alle ore 10:31

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